A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"As a daimyo, I should know the sufferings of the people!"

Before his death, Yamauchi Yoshiharu earnestly taught Yamauchi Taro, telling him that the fundamental purpose of the Yamauchi family was to support Yamauchi's samurai and yeoman farmers. His own class attributes also endowed him with this type of thinking.

Similar to the later Eighth Generation Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, he even directly set up a "Muyasu Box" to ensure that he could hear the opinions of ordinary yeoman farmers. This directly led to the establishment of the "Koishikawa Health Center" and the creation of the "Edo Town Fire Disaster".

To put it bluntly, the feudal rulers listened to the opinions of the lower class while they were still awake, and then made internal improvements to extend their rule as a vested interest.

Chiguoguo!

There is no affectionate love-making. The king and the people are the ruling class and the ruled class. To ease the antagonism, you give up part of the cake, and I continue to bear the heavy burdens patiently, keeping each other on the same level.

"If Your Highness can uphold the integrity of the country, you should set an example for the world and uphold orthodoxy!"

"How is it?"

"This is the fourth strategy, unify the currency!"

The Yamauchi family's mint has privately minted more than 200,000 Yongle coins over the years. If this scale were placed next door, it would only be enough to mint a few months, but in Japan, it would be an incredible fortune.

For more than ten years, the Yamauchi family has trained enough coin craftsmen and has mastered the casting process. This will reserve talents and lay the foundation for the future establishment of a national mint institution affiliated with the shogunate.

Nowadays, as long as there is a name for the copper mine, who will not mint it privately? Bad money circulates freely in the market, plundering people's wealth. The fine money cast by the Yamauchi family has high quality and quantity, the weight of the money reaches 4 grams, the size is regular, and the materials are solid. It has been widely recognized and circulated, and can even be used unimpeded in other countries.

This represents Yamauchi's credibility!

In addition, the Koshin area is rich in gold. The Yamauchi family has been casting one-cent gold for many years, which is used throughout the Eastern Kingdom. Four one-cent gold coins can be used as one tael, which is worth a Yongle coin.

Too many people have talked about the various benefits of a unified currency for stabilizing the market, indirectly stabilizing society and feudal rule, so there is no need to copy and paste them.

Let me just say one thing, it is also the point that rulers will never ignore!

Show your royal power!

The coins I issued are universally accepted. Isn't this proof that I have unified the sixty-six countries and commanded the world? The money you use every day is minted by me as the shogunate. With the stamp of my shogunate, the impact is huge and needs no elaboration.

Throughout the dynasties, even if there is a local government like the corner of the corner, as long as there is an opportunity, who will not mint money?

Even those small political powers that separate a province, or even half a province, have to change yuan and mint money, at least to inform the people within their rule that I have the final say now!

"Therefore, if Your Highness one day unites the princes and brings peace to all countries, you should coin new money and issue it to the world!" Kohei Tai knew that just showing his authority was enough for Yamauchi Taro to remember and adopt it.

"Remember it! This item is also important!"

"If the coins are newly minted and gold, silver, and copper are sorted out, then Your Highness should unify the weights and measures!"

"Weights and measures? Uncle Tanzheng said that the carriages of Emperor Qin Shihuang were on the same track?"

"This is one of them. Your Highness should know that there are just a few species in the world. There are more than ten species in the Eastern Kingdom alone!"

Rulers including Takeda Shingen and Hojo Ujiyasu once used their own power to promote their own determined policies in their territories. Liter, as a unit of volume and to a certain extent, a unit of weight, has a crucial impact on the most important meter in people's lives.

Moreover, by unifying the fields, we can more intuitively understand the yield and harvest of a piece of land. It has a vital impact on important national affairs such as additional taxes and military service.

Like unifying coins, unifying weights and measures is also a powerful manifestation of royal power to a certain extent. Common people use rice to deal with each other every day. If it is called Yamauchi or Ashikaga, it will subtly indicate who rules the world.

To show the king's appearance, to make it clear and correct!

"Tanzheng, I heard that Luoyang's Kyoto is widely circulated. What if it is changed at will and the people cannot accept it?" Yamauchi Yoshio actually asked, probably because he had heard of this thing.

This man, who was called "the straw bag" by later generations, stood firm for three dynasties without falling, and left three vassals to his descendants. The words "loyalty and honesty" definitely have nothing to do with him. I feel that words such as adapting to the situation are more appropriate.

Although he has no ability, he can read the direction of the wind, knows how to save his life, and can understand the direction of the wind in the world.

"Then let everyone use their weapons everywhere, and talk about unifying the world? Everyone goes their own way, and even the government decrees cannot be understood! When necessary, the knife on your waist is not just to show your identity!" Koheta knew what Yamauchi Yoshio meant.

If you suddenly forcefully change the local weights and measures that have been used for a long time, people will definitely not be used to it and may even complain. In addition, if the newly established 桡 is very different from the old 桡, it will inevitably lead to confusion in the annual tribute collection.

When the time comes, it’s not impossible!

But if we want to do great things, we can't bear the pain of reform. How can we talk about quelling the princes and clearing the world?

The winner can speak with the sword in his hand, while the loser can only accept the situation.

"Uncle, please keep talking!" Yamauchi Taro didn't say anything.

"Okay! If Your Highness can bring peace to the region, you should make another move to make friends with foreign countries!"

"Make friends with foreigners? Southern barbarians?"

"That's right! The Nanman people don't just have iron cannons and big barrels!"

In ten years' time, the Tianzheng Youth Mission to Europe will set off, and a true direct understanding of Europe will begin. No matter what the purpose of people like Otomo Sorin, Omura Juntada, and Arima Harunobu, it is true that they opened Japan's eyes to the world.

After the mission returned home, they brought with them a large number of gifts from European monarchs and popes, including items such as Gutenberg's printing press.

It is completely insufficient to understand European countries through the Church of Jesus, and this will surely be controlled by others. It is necessary to use the Yamauchi clan's own power to directly communicate with the kings of the European continent and exchange their needs, so that they can keep up with the pace of the times faster and enhance their own strength.

Now that the West is not far ahead of the East, it should keep up with this pace, so that the black ships will not finally enter Edo Port, and the shogunate's flag will go to the streets to buy flashy things like tōmaru.

More importantly, the exchanges with European countries led by the future shogunate or Taro Yamauchi can also curb the spread of ideas that directly revolutionize the lives of the ruling class to a certain extent. This has both advantages and disadvantages.