A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

There was no doubt that Koheita was unanimously approved at the meeting of the judges. Not only did the judges have no objections, but Hidetoshi, who was holding Yamauchi Taro, also had no objections.

Uesugi Terutora probably told her that Koheita was a pro-Uesugi person who could be won over, and he was talented and would be of great use to Yamauchi Taro's future.

Hidetoshi was about to give birth. After listening to the discussion for a while, she didn't even speak unless it was necessary. It was probably Uesugi Teruhora who told her to ease the relationship with the Yamauchi family retainers, as long as she ensured that everything was informed. .

Many things were discussed at the meeting, and spring was about to begin. Hosokawa Saime cooperated with Konishiharazaemon and Shinano's troops to enter Ueno, and worked together to suppress Takeda and Hojo's offensive. It is estimated that 8,000 people will be mobilized, and military service certificates will be issued to people from Shinano countries at the same time, but only half of the previous ones, in order to test the movements of the people of the country.

Yamauchi Fuchu Castle must not suffer any loss, and Yamauchi's chief planner is still personally in charge. Yamauchi's headquarters troops only mobilized a small number of Hosokawa's main troops to ensure that in case of emergency, five thousand troops can be gathered in Fuchu Castle in an instant.

Kodaira went to Hamamatsu and cooperated with his uncle Tsunada and Imagawa Yoshinori. After handling the Nanman affairs, he mobilized five thousand people from Mikawa and Toe to support the Oda clan and help Matsudaira Ieyasu enter the city.

Koheita also put forward Kobayashi Motoharu's suggestion at the meeting. The Nanman merchant ships first came to the Eastern Kingdom, and the Yamauchi family didn't know shit. They didn't know how to tax or manage. They are all processed according to the ordinary return ship in Japan, which is very crude.

First, the simplest thing is that Nanman merchant ships almost do not accept copper coins. Since the Kaido and Koshinobu areas are rich in gold, the precious metals are relatively abundant on the market. Not only the merchants, but also the Yamauchi family themselves have not felt the impact of the loss of precious metals on the country.

Of course, it would take some time for the consequences to be revealed. Xiao Pingtai just mentioned it, and others didn't care much. Makishino Kaneyama alone produces thousands of taels of gold a year, and it has not been depleted even after decades of mining. People do not have to worry about the loss of precious metals.

It's best to invite a big shot like Adam Smith to come over and talk about this kind of thing, and Xiaopingta doesn't know much about it either.

Koheita's method was to encourage the production of raw silk. This path was the old path of the Meiji period. Japan once became the world's second largest exporter of raw silk. It was marketed in Europe and the United States and provided a large amount of development funds for its industrialization. History has proven that it is feasible.

The residents of the country used raw silk to deduct taxes, and the Yamauchi family acted as middlemen and exported the raw silk to Nanman merchants, so they would not lose money. Barter to reduce the outflow of metal currency.

Secondly, Nanman merchant ships brought many luxury goods. In 1575, a merchant ship brought tigers, elephants, parrots, peacocks and other rare animals, ramie, damask, brocade and other fabrics, agarwood, books, calligraphy and painting decorations, orangutan skins. Waiting for precious items to enter Kyushu.

The value of the goods reached an astonishing 40,000 guan. If you think about it, Uesugi Kagekatsu's gift of thanks for asking Takeda Katsuyori to come to the rescue was only 10,000 guan, and Akechi Mitsuhide's gift for building Sakamoto Castle was only 10,000 guan.

Such a ship of goods can make Katsuyori Takeda sell out his teammate Ujimasa Hojo to save you four times!

The continuous import of these luxury goods will not only cause the social atmosphere to turn to extravagance, but also greatly damage the financial resources of the samurai daimyo and common people, which is what Koheta does not want to see.

Therefore, Xiao Pingtai is preparing to impose restrictions on the import and sale of luxury goods and implement an access system for Nanman merchant ships entering the port.

Specify the amount of grain and rice carried by each ship and formulate a graded tax system. For merchant ships that can import rice, pig iron, steel, saltpeter and other items, the more of the above goods, the lower the tax, and vice versa.

At the same time, as rice is one of the foundations of the country, it was very rare for Xiaoping to make up his mind to be a bad guy. Anyway, none of the sea-going ships that can sail on the ocean are small boats. There must be no shortage of meters for ballast, right?

The Yamauchi family bought some of them for two-thirds of the market price, which was a method used by the Southern Song Dynasty court. Of course, the behavior of the Southern Song Dynasty court was even worse, more heinous, heart-rending, and even inhumane. In order to make money at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the court did not regard itself as a court and directly printed waste paper to rob it.

Xiao Pingtai did not go so far, nor did he openly rob. This was mainly to enrich the military rations. Only when the soldiers are full can they have the strength to drill. Only when they train more can they have combat effectiveness. Some of the rice "bought" from the Nanman ship in Hamamatsu was stored as famine relief rice or military rations, and some was cooked in a large pot directly for the standing ashigaru who directly belonged to the Yamauchi family.

After these two steps were temporarily dealt with, Xiao Pingtai did not mind promoting one of his own. Chen San was appointed as Nanman's Ship Supervisor. All the taxation matters of Nanman's ships were separated and made into separate projects. One ship did not scrape a tax of four thousand guan. Xiao Pingtai was embarrassed when he came with the money.

Kobayashi Motoharu, who had shown his face once in front of Yamauchi Chief Accountant and Koheita, was appointed as the head of the Nanman Executive Yutongxin Group, which was equivalent to becoming the general affairs director of Nanman Executive, responsible for all general affairs in Koheita's absence.

Moreover, the chief planner of Yamauchi still had a good impression of this little repartee who answered fluently. In just one sentence, he was recruited into the Yamauchi clan's banner family and received an annual salary of fifty guan. As the leader of the Yutongxin group, he would receive another 50 guan for one year. It's definitely a big improvement.

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"How many ashigaru are left in Futamata Castle? How many are standing ashigaru in Makino, Kakegawa, Takatenjin, and Tanaka?"

Xiaopingta, who was riding on the horse, asked Uncle Tsunaliang carefully. This time he wanted to select soldiers again. Higashi Mikawa Uden Changteru promised to persuade people from all over the world to give one thousand, and Xiaopingta only needed to recruit 4,000 more people.

"In the important town of Futama, the number of soldiers has gradually increased to 500." For some reason, Uncle Tsunaliang seemed to feel a little sad when he said it. This was all supported by his own money. Who told him that he is now the head of the retainers? Thousands and five hundred pieces of knowledge and practice.

"It's enough to bring half. I also brought two hundred soldiers myself." Xiao Pingtai also brought his iron artillery soldiers. The uncle and nephew could make up five hundred combat-effective infantry.

"The 800 soldiers left behind in Hamamatsu will also draw 300. Can His Highness Yueji draw 200 Makino soldiers?"

"No problem!" Imagawa Yoshiuchi nodded. He was finally allowed to leave Yamauchi Fuchu Castle because the overall situation was now decided and there was nothing to worry about.

It was too miserable for Xiaoping to think about it. How many of you give me, and how many of them I will give. The commander-in-chief of the three armies did such a shabby job, counting heads here on his fingers.

He is just a humble younger brother.

If a daimyo has no prestige, except for the soldiers and horses he directly leads, he will be like Xiao Pingtai. Please lend me two hundred. Please lend me three hundred. It's very similar to the writer himself who can't come out to spend money at the end of the month and begs his grandfather and grandma everywhere.

Fortunately, Xiao Pingtai still has some face, everyone is very enthusiastic, and there are many people who should be sent out. Xiao Pingtai could always gather five thousand people and pull them up to fight.