A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Koheta had finished buying expensive wood, and Denemon was chasing him every day to ask questions.

"When will the wood arrive?"

"Can you arrive tonight?"

"Can you arrive tomorrow?"

"Can we arrive the day after tomorrow?"

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Mrs. Kodaira, haha, miscalculated one thing, the transportation capacity and road level, it is very fast to take a boat to Sakai Town, where East and West goods gather. Plenty of gold and good wood were delivered immediately, within minutes.

Then it only takes less than half a day and a day to hire someone to carry it back to the ship. There are many Lifu who do this job. There are thousands of porters on the Sakai Town Pier. Yongle can move quickly with just a drop of money.

Then the Sengoku ship's drum was filled with sails, and it arrived in Hamamatsu in two or three days, and then it was gone!

The wood was unloaded, and thousands of large and small logs were piled in Hamamatsu Port.

Using an oxcart? Even if it didn't take a hundred trucks to be transported together, it would probably take two trips, and people would have to push them along the way. It's not realistic at all. It's not easy to find a hundred ox carts. It's too difficult.

It would be much easier if it didn't snow in late autumn and early winter. The dirt road would freeze solid at night. I would splash water along the road in the early morning and it would freeze soon. I would have to find some strength and drag along the ice road. Just go.

There is a lot of construction work here in Dameng. The huge wood and stone materials from the south are transported to Tongzhou via the canal. When winter comes, water is poured on the official road to turn into ice, and they are pulled along the ice to complete the last section of the road. Although it is hard work, it is very practical.

But it's summer now, so this method is definitely unreliable. Of course, lime or something else reacts violently with water and absorbs heat, so it can be used to make ice in the summer. But considering the amount of ice production required to pave dozens of kilometers of road, forget it and just be an honest person.

It would be much more convenient to use Kiso wood in situ. Famous materials from all over the country are used. If the things are good, the price is not small. Assuming that we hire porters and three teams of people to carry them into the mountains day and night, that is not impossible, and it is even the most direct way.

But the manpower mobilized and the funds spent, tsk tsk tsk!

No wonder both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu continued to launch city-building campaigns. On the surface, they wanted to recruit famous talents from all over the world to fully reflect the momentum of the people in the world. In fact, it is to consume the financial and human resources of the great names, making them exhausted and worrying about one thing and the other.

Koheita is just building a mansion, building an Osaka Castle? Fushimi Castle? Edo Castle? Don’t dare to think! Don’t dare to think!

In the end, we compromised, and we could only hire three shifts of people to pick the wood into the mountains. Originally, Xiao Pingtai came up with a blind idea. She thought she was very cool, so she threw the wood into the water and hired people on the shore to pull it upstream. Anyway, it was not the rainy season and the water flow was not fast, so it should not be a big problem.

But carpenters immediately stopped it. They cut down the tree and left it to dry in the shade for a year or even three years, just to dissipate the moisture and make it easier to use. You'd better soak it in the water for more than ten days. Isn't this just fun?

Come on, laymen lead experts, Xiaoping was slapped in the face by a carpenter.

From then on, Xiao Pingtai left the shopkeeper, pretended to be nothing, and hurried to the city to receive justice.

First, he went to the Internal Affairs Office to deal with the feudal reserve fund. Koheita discovered a problem, that is, once there was a war, there were a lot of people borrowing money for various reasons. Although the loan amount has been discussed at the beginning, it is usually only ten or twenty at most.

The amount is basically divided according to the person's knowledge and performance or the amount of salary. The approximate amount is limited to half of his annual income. In theory, someone with a status like Xiao Pingtai can borrow less than 1,000 guan, but Xiao Pingtai is not short of this amount of money. , the senior samurai couldn't save face by bowing his head to borrow money.

The main borrowers are Ashigaru military service members, public servants, lower-level samurai, etc. Their income makes their loan amount not much higher at all.

But before the war, people came to borrow money in droves. Because it was an interest-free or low-interest loan, everyone borrowed up to the limit. When they all came back from the war, they all came back in a swarm to pay back the money.

You don't need to think about the reason for this, because if you die in battle, you don't have to pay back the money, so anyone with any brains has thought of this. In line with the principle of not borrowing for nothing, everyone came to poach the corner of socialism. If you come back alive, you'll get an interest of 35 cents at most. If you die unfortunately, you'll be left with a legacy of several taels or even more than a dozen taels of gold!

The original rule was that only for weddings, funerals, serious illness or disasters, etc., the loan could only be borrowed if the immediate boss had written a letter of guarantee of introduction. But the samurai locals couldn't save their face. When their subordinates or soldiers under their control asked for help, they basically responded to their requests.

And since this is an inclusive reserve fund for all the feudal lords in the mountain, no one is willing to be a bad person and veto the loan application, so although there is no loss in the reserve fund, this chaotic situation still exists.

If, just if, the Yamauchi family suffered a horrific defeat like the Nagashino War, with more than 10,000 dead, then this reserve fund would be destroyed immediately, and they would be playing ball the next day.

However, Kodaira's efforts to protect the yeoman farmers (providing ashigaru infantry) and small property holders (providing homage infantry and cavalry) were in vain. This thing is really an embarrassing problem.

Strict review system? In a feudal society, no matter how strict the laws were, there was still room for humaneness. What's more, it is a feudal society that relies on the loyalty between lords and people, daimyo and samurai. No matter how strict you are, there will always be loopholes to exploit and ways to work around.

Moreover, Xiaoping was so good that he received the gratitude of many feudal lords in the mountain. How could he destroy this good reputation by himself now? It is better to think of another way, something that can be implemented in the long run.

After seeing the income from fine velvet match ropes, Xiaoping had an idea and simply gave it up.

After the reserve fund reached tens of thousands of dollars in principal, it was announced that no early repayment would be allowed. Borrowing would start in five years and no further borrowing would be allowed before repayment.

The kind of people who borrow money just in case can at least block part of it. Even if there is still a rush to borrow money, there will still be enough funds to lend.

In a normal bad battle, one or two hundred people would die, and two or three hundred people would be dead. The other people are still alive and can only slowly repay their loans within five years and cannot borrow any more.

In order to prevent the huge chaos caused by the swarm up and down, I will simply lend it all to you. No one will be able to borrow it in the future, so just pay it back slowly.

And if the money is in the hands of soldiers, they will spend it randomly? It doesn't exist. If they want to spend it lavishly, there aren't that many luxuries and romantic places for them to spend on. The money in their hands can also play an emergency protection role.

In the end, if unfortunately Nagashino joins forces, everyone will be dead, and the Yamauchi family will be ruined. How about a hammer reserve fund, so that everyone can have good company on the road to hell, and use the money to buy a boat ticket on Hirarazaka.