Edo Traveler

In the past few days, the princes sent to Edo to run around, begging the shogunate for borrowing, it is like a mountain like a sea. There are friendships and activities everywhere. What you want is nothing more than one to two thousand, two to three thousand dollars. There are even some small feudal vassals, the entire feudal clan has only a few thousand people, and the shogunate can evade the disaster by borrowing three thousand two five thousand two.

But with so many people coming to borrow, the shogunate was used to replenishing large sums of money. How could it be supported?

Why don't they ask Osaka merchants and Edo merchants to borrow money? On the one hand, it may not be possible to borrow, and on the other hand, it is to ask the luxury merchants that they need to pay interest when borrowing. Asking the shogunate to borrow money, not only does not require interest, but after two years, he said two soft words to the Tokugawa family. With a big wave of the Tokugawa family, the money was free.

You said they chose to ask who to borrow it!

It's not that you are being taken advantage of by the shogunate. Who told you to be my monarch? As your courtier, it is my duty to serve you, and it is your duty to take care of me.

Right now, as soon as Sakuma Kojiyama said that he would save himself by production, Tademon realized that the previous development ideas now have a good opportunity to make up.

Shigeru Nara obtained the monopoly of the raw silk and silk industry in Japan from the shogunate, but this was limited to the Tianling. In other domains, the princes' homes produced silk, and the shogunate had no control over it. At most, the raw silk is sold to the textile centers Kyoto and Edo, and then managed.

Now the vassals of the world are asking for help from the shogunate in an endless stream. Instead of taking out the golden cash to rescue them out of thin air, the shogunate might as well take this opportunity to do a large-scale integration of the national silk industry.

We will completely eliminate inferior silkworm eggs from all parts of the country and use Nara Shigeru's advanced breeding techniques combined with the Netherlands and France to cultivate silkworm eggs. Improve the quality of Japanese raw silk nationwide and strengthen the competitiveness of Japanese raw silk in the international market.

Then, I took this opportunity to set up modern machine silk reeling factories among the major vassals of the country or the clans close to the shogunate, and purchase silkworm cocoons cultivated and produced by the vass nearby. After they were made into raw silk, steam steamers were used. , Transferred to Nagasaki and Yokohama non-stop at 4 o'clock for export.

Using the central authority of the shogunate as the basis for promotion, the princes across the country were told that the shogunate would spend money to build silk reeling factories and purchase silkworm cocoons from farmers in their domains. The price is definitely higher than their previous retail sales, provided that, of course, the high-quality silkworm eggs promoted by the Shogunate must be used.

Acting in this way, not only the people in the domains, but also a new way to survive outside of farming. The vassal palaces can also extract taxes from the raw silk, obtain income, and then enrich the vassal government.

Of course, someone will definitely ask, why should I follow you, so I can do it myself?

Then don't come to the shogunate to borrow money, go home by yourself and stand upright, and then you will be killed by the people!

One thing to say is that with this arrangement, in the end, other vassal kingdoms will be jealous of establishing silk reeling factories, exporting raw silk profits, and finally producing them in the collar.

There is no need to suppress it. The demand in the European and American markets is too great to imagine. In the history of the Meiji government, the 4,000 silk reeling factories were producing around the clock, and they simply failed to meet the needs of the European and American markets.

Moreover, they produce silk by themselves, and they want to compete with Shigeru Nara's silk reeling factory. There are only two ways. One is to reduce prices, and the other is to improve quality. If the quality of raw silk is poor, even if the price is reduced, foreigners are not necessary. If the quality of raw silk is improved by them, then Chuemon will only be happy, and how good it is to copy their skills directly.

Can't plagiarize?

I will give your master in the factory a hereditary two-hundred-stone banner, you see whether he will take refuge in the shogunate.

Everyone eats according to their abilities. The rice pot is so big that it can be eaten horizontally and vertically. You can't finish eating. What's the point of contention? Instead of letting it rest, Chungemon had already made money by running a large-scale silk reeling factory and started other modern industrial and mining enterprises. The new troops of the Bao Qi Chuan Xi team all pulled out 30,000.

"Shinano has the need to grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms for a living. As long as the cocoons are produced, no matter how many cocoons are produced, the shogunate can arrange them." Chuemon felt that even a silk reeling factory could be set up directly under Matsushiro Castle. .

Anyway, if a factory gets it right, it can't cost 20,000 to 30,000, and the workers are all about cabbage prices. Training is a matter of training. It is nothing more than waiting for the imported steam reeling machine to take time. This point, Chuemon has asked the Saga clan to step up the development. There are imitations earlier, but they still need to be improved.

"How much raw silk does a foreign merchant need?" Sakuma Kōyama knew that Tadaoemon would definitely not cheat himself.

"Thousands to tens of thousands, even tens of thousands of catties!" Chuemon said only to Ouchi.

"Oh..."

If so much is required, then there are indeed no production concerns. It is nothing more than going up the mountain to chop off the miscellaneous trees and planting all the mulberry trees. As long as they can make money, this person has a very strong subjective initiative.

"This matter needs a long-term discussion. After April, the princes under the world will come to the prefecture to explain, and then they will also explain it." Chuyouweimen must take advantage of the tiger skin of the shogunate to handle this matter.

The shogunate is still very rich in funds. As for the two businesses of raw silk and shipping that Shigeru Nara has undertaken, this society has already begun to make a profit, and there is a large amount of cash flow to use. There is no problem at all.

Even if the stall can't be spread across the country for a while, it's okay to arrange dozens of eastern states first. Moreover, if some daimyos who were originally antipathy can be added to the economic system of the shogunate and enjoy the dividends of this system, their antipathy will sooner or later be annihilated by themselves.

Those who are determined to turn back will also make too much money every year because they make too much money. Hesitation caused by uukanshu.com or something. In the end it becomes "Wait for the party", wait for the delivery of the raw silk money from the shogunate in the second half of the year to rebel, wait for the beginning of spring, wait for the summer solstice, wait for the autumn harvest, wait...

"Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness, there is an urgent report!"

Kurokawa Keitokaki knew that Chuemon was meeting with Sakuma Sangyama, or interrupted aloud. What happened to this, and he was so anxious?

"What's the matter?" Chuemon turned around and took two steps.

"It's an urgent report from Footo." There was a person behind Kurokawa Keito. Chuemon looked familiar, as if he was an overseas student sent to Mount Ashio.

"Look with me."

Unfolding the urgent item sent by Ashio Copper Mountain, Chuemon is happier as he sees it. Before a major earthquake in Kanto, Ashio Copper Mountain experienced severe collapse and mudslides. Now the spring is beginning, and the miners have resumed production and went up the mountain to mine, only to discover the mountain that was collapsed by the earthquake. Almost the entire mountain is covered with copper veins.

The ore vein capable of producing 7,200 tons of red copper per year has finally been found!