A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"Bathroom?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu touched his head.

"There are no hot springs in the mountain. How can we divert water to make a bathroom?" Hosokawa Harumiya didn't even turn around.

"Water can be boiled! It doesn't have to be a hot spring. Besides, it's so comfortable to soak in a hot spring. There must be many people willing to come." Xiao Ping looked at the rigid thinking of these two people. No wonder the spread of technology in ancient times was slow.

"Heat water? Firewood is not a small amount of money, right?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu always cares about this money issue.

Xiaoping had thought about it too early. In fact, the best fuel should be coal. The price of burning wood was too high and it was definitely not cost-effective. But unfortunately, coal in Japan is either not easy to mine, or it is far away from Shinano Country.

On a small island off the coast of Hizen, Koheita remembered that there was a large coal mine with high reserves and easy mining. But rushing to Kyushu Hizen to dig coal just to get a bathroom? nonexistent.

There is an anecdote that the person who inspired Koheita was actually Ishida Mitsunari.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi promised to give Ishida Mitsunari ten thousand koku tomoyo, but Ishida Mitsunari did not want it and declined such a large territory. He only asked for the ownership of the reeds along Lake Biwa.

Others laughed at him for being stupid, but after he harvested the reeds and sold them for firewood, not only did his income far exceed that of the ten thousand dan territory, but he also earned several crops a year. After all, reeds grow quickly and can harvest many waves in a year.

Koheita, who did the survey and entrustment, discovered that one of the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by Yamauchi Yoshiharu was called "dizi", which means that all the territory in the mountain belongs to the Yamauchi family, and the common people go into non-agricultural land such as forests, swamps, and riverbanks to obtain firewood, For food and materials, you need to pay a usage fee to the Yamauchi family, which is the land.

What Koheita meant was that Yamauchi Yoshiharu did not need to pay, and asked his good son Yamauchi Yoshikatsu to order the people on the swamps and tidal flats along the river not to pay so much money for land, but to cut reeds and cattails directly. As long as it can be delivered to the mountain, the land fee will be waived.

Another opportunity was given to Yamauchi Yoshiharu and his son. How much money do the people along the river have in total? The money earned in the bathroom is several times that, it is just free money.

This will solve the fuel problem, and the fuel will not cost money, and the largest cost will be solved.

A multilateral win-win situation! Koheita solved the problem of fuel to reduce costs, and Yamauchi Yogiharu and his son made money while lying down. Farmers along the river did not need to pay monetary taxes and could use their labor to compensate. This is in line with the core values ​​of XX doctrine!

"Since it's you, Koheta, there's nothing more to say. Let's leave it at that." Yamauchi Yoshiharu could still make this decision for his son. The matter of dozens of land coins is trivial.

What's more, Xiao Ping was running a business, and he had never lost money. He just waited at home to get the money.

As for the old father-in-law Hosokawa's erotic palace, he was mainly a sponsor. The money earned by miso last time was more than 7,000 guan, which was evenly distributed throughout the mountain. The old father-in-law now has at least a few hundred guan of private money in his hands. If you don't trick him into using it to make money, who will he?

As for Xiao Pingtai, it must be a technical investment. Without Xiao Pingtai's idea, there would be no way for them to make money.

Moreover, Koheita's suggestion of giving free bathing tickets to all the samurai in the mountain was supported by two people. They were local friends from the hometown. They are happy to do this kind of thing for free, and it is good to have a reputation for being generous.

Two to one plus five, the three of them finalized the matter in just a few words. Just do what you say, and the large town of 20,000 people in Yamauchi Fuzhongcheng is full of business opportunities. 【Note 1】

The two old men used their remaining energy and immediately started activities. The bathroom has not been opened, and I have been to the hot springs a lot. Build a pool with stones, build a guest room for rest, and a kitchen for boiling water and supplying water.

This also involves a problem, that is, the status of warriors and common people are different. Common people must bow to warriors when they see them. However, it is impossible to open a bathhouse only for samurai or common people, and it is not cost-effective to set up separate pools.

There are only a few hundred samurai, but there are 20,000 ordinary ashigaru and civilians. It will definitely be a loss to open a special pool for samurai.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu thought for a while and wrote a sentence very coquettishly: "No matter how big or small the hot spring is, it will be naked and no one will come or go." He planned to post it at the gate after it was built.

How is it possible to kneel down and salute in the pool? There is no need to salute in the bathroom.

As a representative of the samurai class, Hosokawa Harumiya felt that she might be dissatisfied by the samurai, but there was no other way. You can't let a samurai enter and the whole pool immediately stand up and then all kneel down, right? 【Note 2】

In a hundred years, there will be tens of thousands of warriors in Edo City every day, and everyone will kneel when people come and go on the street. Then the people of Edo City will not have to live their lives, they will just kneel on the ground every day.

Koheita also believes that as long as the samurai are not offended, the samurai's resistance should not be much. What's more, there are many warriors in the mountain, and most of the people in the city know them.

At worst, when the samurai comes in, everyone just bows their heads and salutes. The Tsukiyo head of a samurai is easy to recognize. It would be a big deal if you lower your head when you see the Tsukiyo head.

This is where feudal hierarchy gets fucked up, and this is where feudal hierarchy gets “in order.” The common people had no objection at all to bowing their heads and saluting the samurai, and all they had to do was give an order.

The last one is the service content of the bathhouse bathroom. As mentioned before, the two bosses looked at ease and had an acceptable expression on their faces.

As for basic services such as rubbing your back and squeezing your legs, you must get them. This kind of basic work is easy to recruit.

Then there is the need to set up guest rooms to facilitate "overnight" customers, right? There must also be services for selling drinks, snacks, and meals, so that people can eat, drink, sleep, and wash themselves here.

Probably just such a charter, Xiao Pingtai gave up. Because the summer harvest is over, the people must pay taxes quickly so that they can continue planting rice.

Xiao Pingtai, as a surveyor, had no choice but to go under the sun to urge various places to pay money quickly, and also to calculate the accounts and make sure there were no mistakes or omissions. He cannot allow any evil cases to occur on his watch.

Heping Liu and Kurosawa worked hard for half a month before collecting and paying off this round of tribute.

The rainy season has arrived as promised!

[Note 1]: Taking Kanazawa Domain as an example, there are over 20,000 feudal lords. So how many people are there in Kanazawa Castle Town? More than 100,000! The Yamauchi family has about three thousand standing ashigaru, and there are three to four hundred samurai, multiplied by a family of four or five. Including the town residents, the population of more than 20,000 is just a small number.

[Note 2]: In the Edo period, the bathrooms in Edo Castle actually no longer cared about this. Common people and samurai washed in the same pool. There is no such thing as washing up and having all the samurai kneel down when they come in.