A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"Lord Tanzheng, you are so free!"

Heita, who was working as an unqualified swineherd, was stopped by someone. He looked up and saw someone other than Sukezaemon.

Seeing that Sukezaemon was coming, Koheita took off the bamboo hat and shook it casually in his hand. It was still a little hot under the direct sun in the field.

"Nothing compares to our Natsuya Chief Sukezaemon, the big boss!" Koheta came up to him with a smile.

"Today's lunch, I have to ask Kaori." Sukezaemon and a trusted user came to Xiaoheita.

Xiaopingtai invited him to sit under a big tree by the river. Chensan ran home and brought a large pot of herbal tea and a ceramic bowl. Several people sat on the floor, each drinking a large bowl of tea.

Xiao Pingtai has been staying in the countryside for more than a week. All the big bosses in the mountain have their own things to do. So far, no one has come to take care of Xiao Pingtai. Mrs. Xiao Ping actually had a few days of free life. She didn't have to worry about any mundane matters, big or small. She was very relaxed.

"How do you think I'm raising these piglets?" Xiao Pingtai pointed at the pigs on Gonghe Beach with the branch in his hand.

"No matter how well the pigs are raised, they will never be used for their main business."

Sukezaemon also used a small branch to tease a little pig not far away. One group poked its butt and the other poked its ears.

"It's rare that I can go back to the countryside to relax for a few days, just to entertain myself." Xiao Pingtai said, and the little pig stuck out its butt and ran quickly to find its mother pig.

Tatsuzo and Sukezaemon's servants both stood up consciously and went to another tree not far away.

"Nanxin's dealers and merchants have all started shipping." Sukezaemon immediately changed his face when he talked about business.

"They are just following their inertia and starting to sell them. They have to eat. Is there any supply of goods in the countryside?" Xiaoping broke the branch in his hand too wantonly.

"It's very rare. There was a severe drought last year, and soybeans were out of ten, and many of them were even bought out in advance. The number of shipments now is far less than in normal years in the past."

"Have you Nawu sent people to the countryside to check?" "We have visited more than 20 villages, so it shouldn't be wrong."

This year's new wheat harvest has been harvested. Due to insufficient winter snow last year, this year's wheat harvest may be smaller. But when the wheat falls, it means that ordinary people can have at least two active coins in their hands, more or less.

"What's the market situation?" "A few days ago, it was only eight yuan, but now it's out of stock. The merchants from Jiazhou, Shangzhou, and Wuzhou came late, and the entire village in the mountain has been unable to receive miso. They are in a hurry. Gotta go round and round.”

"What's their price?" "Ten dollars a liter, no goods to buy, hahahaha." Sukezaemon was a little pleased. Those small foreign merchants had just arrived now, how could they still buy goods.

"Has the news that we have stock been released?" Xiao Pingtai stood up, clapped his hands, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the quietly flowing Lianchuan.

"Who in the entire mountain doesn't know that our Nawu warehouse is full of miso, and they have already surrounded us." Sukezaemon also stood up.

"No, I can only come here to hide from the sun, so as not to be found by them."

"Sukezaemon, do you think you can ship it?" Koheita's heart dropped to his stomach when he heard the price of ten cents per liter. History followed his path, and the miso crisis broke out in Togoku. .

The current price is already three and a half times the capital. If you sell it now, the ten thousand guan will immediately turn into 35,000 guan. If you divide the account into 37, Xiao Pingtai will have 24,500 guan.

And Xiao Pingtai’s capital? It's all someone else's, a waste of money!

"Just wait two more days, and there will be goods in the mountains in the entire Dongguo. If we don't hold them back, we can loosen up a little bit. If we release so much goods, the price will always go down, and we may not be able to get 30,000 guan by then."

Sukezaemon seemed to have an abacus in his hand, and he could go through the entire account in his mind with just a few glances, and there were clusters of light in his eyes.

"So, you are going to hide from me these two days?" "You don't want to bother me any longer."

"It will delay you from doing other big business." "Such a big business of thirty or forty thousand dollars at a time is usually untouchable. Hahahaha!"

"There is one thing, Kai's Takeda Daizen Zenjie." Sukezaemon said casually.

It turned out that after Takeda Harunobu suppressed various forces in Suruga on the surface through his eldest grandson, he worked hard to prepare Jinshan and open up new sources of wealth.

The extremely rich catches in Suruga Bay reminded him, and he actually imitated Yamauchi's joint-stock operation, and also attracted the samurai from Kai and Suruga to open a dried fish workshop. 【Note 1】

When Sukezaemon went to Suruga, he discovered that there were many good-quality dried fish in Sunfu Town, ranging from bonito knots used to shave bonito flowers to other types of dried fish that were grilled, kabayaki, and Tsukuda-boiled and then dried. Bag.

Not only is it delicious to eat, but the price is surprisingly affordable and can be afforded by ordinary middle-class families.

Takeda Harunobu relied on this dried fish to open up a new source of income of thousands of kanfu a year, and also used it to win the loyalty of a number of Kai and Suruga samurai. After all, a good name is the one who can make everyone rich. Follow him and you will have meat to eat.

Koheita secretly thought that Takeda Harunobu was the king and he could completely monopolize the business by himself, but he followed Koheita and gave a lot of profits to other samurai. Xiao Ping Tai did it as a last resort, but he did it on his own initiative.

Be generous! Have a vision!

"Takeda Daisen is indeed a hero!" Koheita then praised him.

"If it can be done this time, I can immediately mobilize Wan Guan, and I will go to Kai to meet Takeda Daisen to fight for the monopoly rights of this dried fish." Sukezaemon did not hide his ambition.

"You are not avoiding me. Takeda Daisen is the enemy of my Highness. You are betting on both sides." Xiaoping was not surprised. There are new special products. As long as the sales prospects are confirmed, businessmen who smell the scent of money will always Will pounce on you.

Sukezaemon is not a local businessman of the Yamauchi clan, and is not subject to the control of the Yamauchi clan. Naturally, he can bet on both sides. The rise and fall of the daimyo lords, but Sukezaemon could watch with cold eyes.

"We'll be back in the mountains in five days. We can't keep people waiting." Xiao Pingtai turned around and said.

"Okay, that should be the case." Sukezaemon followed with a smile.

At the same time, dozens or even hundreds of small businessmen from all over the Eastern Kingdom gathered in front of the Yamauchi Fuchu Castle Shimo Nawu Branch. As time went by, the number of people increased.

[Note 1]: Numazu in Shizuoka Prefecture is indeed one of the seven major dried fish industry gathering places in Japan. The most famous dried tuna is one of Japan’s top 100 famous products. Its origin was actually in the Edo period, and it was Edo period. In the middle and late period of the household era, this place was a hundred years ahead of schedule.