Yu Qiuping, Amano Keitoku, and Takenaka Shigeharu stood at the top of the city, watching Yu Qiu Shang and Yu Qiu You leave, gradually disappearing at the end of the field of vision. They looked at the two people who had grown up beside them since childhood and had never left home.
As the child gradually moved away, Yu Qiuping felt a throbbing pain in his heart. In the future, they will live like hostages, all freedom of movement will be restricted, and safety will not be guaranteed. Can they sleep at night?
?Will the food there be appetizing? Will the businessmen of Sakai Town and the Hatakeyama family look down on them? If the cooperation is not pleasant, will they be threatened? Will they miss home, and will they secretly
What about crying?
At that moment, Yu Qiuping suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness. He had worked hard for so long, but he couldn't even protect his own child, okay? Yu Qiucen didn't know about this yet, so how should he explain it to her then?
Where is your brother?
After Takenaka Shigeharu and Yu Qiupei said goodbye, they continued to go back to handle military affairs. As the production of iron cannons gradually kept up with Tokiwabei's replacement speed, each company was equipped with enough iron cannons. This requires a lot of training.
The iron gunner, Shigeharu Takenaka, was also very busy with this.
However, after Takenaka Shigeharu left, Amano Keitoku and Yu Qiu stood side by side on the city wall, unwilling to leave for a long time.
"What's the matter, Quan Bingwei, why are you so reluctant to part with your apprentice?" Yu Qiuping tried his best to restrain the sadness in his heart and asked pretending to be relaxed.
"No, Your Highness." Amano Jingde shook his head, slowly retracted his gaze from a distance, and focused on Yu Qiuping's face, "I just want to talk to Your Highness."
"Talk about it? What do you want to talk about?" Since Amano Keide's tone was always serious and cold, Yu Qiuping didn't notice Amano Keide's seriousness this time.
"Tell me what your Highness wants to do." Amano Keide's face darkened and he whispered coldly.
"Are you talking about the matter of this Congress and that court?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, understanding what Amano Jingtoku was about to say, and scratched his head with some guilt.
"I have always thought that the separation of powers mentioned by His Highness was just a temporary measure, a concession made in order to survive the difficulties of food shortages and the pressure of the army a few years ago. Because those proposals are so ridiculous that no one has ever done it since ancient times.
To give away so much power of one's own family, it is better to give it to merchants. To give up the power of legislation to merchants, and to hand over the treasury to merchants, and to hand over the power of trial to the warriors of other families, and even give them two legitimate sons.
Being a hostage. If you think about it, no one will take it seriously, right?" Amano Jingde stared into Yu Qiuping's eyes, and slowly stroked the crow on his shoulder with his other hand, "To be honest, I don't know what happened to Your Highness.
The reason why you persuaded the merchants of Sakai Town and Takamasa Hatakeyama to accept such whimsical conditions may be because His Highness is so eloquent. But I always thought that once the Miyoshi family was defeated, His Highness would break the contract and give up the businessmen of Sakai Town.
Cleaned up."
"I never thought that Your Highness would actually send the eldest and second young masters away. Why is this?"
"If I don't send Shang'er and You'er over, Sakai Town will soon cut off the supply of food and grass. How many days can our food and grass last?" Yu Qiuping spread his hands and said in a helpless tone: "Hatakeyama then
His Highness is organizing small wealthy families to cause trouble, and we are simply unable to deal with it, so this battle will be in vain!"
"There is absolutely a chance that the matter will be resolved." Amano Keitoku whispered with great dissatisfaction: "Now that Otori County is in our hands, we can let Fukushima-sama and Omaezaki-sama directly attack Sakai Town and take Sakai Town.
Come down and seize the baggage there, then return to the army to destroy the small wealthy clan."
"How can it be that easy? Sakai Town also has its own ninjas. Their 800 people may not be able to defeat them immediately. What if the Sanhao family takes the opportunity to come and it will be over? Besides, Sakai Town has always had a tradition of autonomy.
The armies of various famous families will not interfere easily. Once we break the precedent, our reputation will be ruined. No businessman will be willing to trade with us in the future." Yu Qiuping moved his open hand up and down again, as if he wanted to
Convince Amano Keitoku.
"Even so, Your Highness still has a lot to do, why should you just bow your head and admit defeat?" Amano Jingtoku was not convinced by Yu Qiuping's explanation, but retorted: "Whether it is negotiating for better conditions, or winning over the two parties.
There are too many ways that one party can think of to attack the other party, or to ask for outside assistance. Why did His Highness just admit defeat? Just send the hostages there. From now on, we will use the enemy to avoid war, but we really have to fight with Sakai Town and Hatakeyama Taka
The three political powers have been separated. The legislative power, the treasury, and the law enforcement power can never be taken back!"
"That's something that can't be helped. After all, I promised it before." Yu Qiuping was speechless after being retorted by Amano Jingtoku, so he had to hesitate and prevaricate. Amano Jingtoku was stunned for a moment and frowned.
He frowned at Yu Qiuping for a moment, and then as if he suddenly understood something, he took a step across and came to Yu Qiuping. He raised his head slightly, stared into Yu Qiuping's eyes, and whispered:
"Your Highness...the reason why you have such a resigned attitude is that you still don't understand how much damage your separation of powers will do to the Yuqiu family?" Amano Jingtoku paused and said coldly: "Businessmen
We make our own laws, and how much power our Yuqiu family has is also written in the law. In other words, it is equivalent to leaving the family rules to others to write! If they write it in the constitution, the Yuqiu family will
The successor must be voted on by the National Assembly, what is Your Highness planning to do?"
"Of course we can't let them write it randomly. I will send people to participate in the formulation of the law." Yu Qiuping nodded as he should.
"I would like to ask Your Highness again, if they enact a tax law and say that all merchants in Sakai Town do not need to pay taxes, what are Your Highness going to do?" Amano Keitoku asked a question again.
"Please, the Yuqiu family is now a grasshopper tied to a rope with them. If they enact such a law, it means that the Yuqiu family's treasury is exhausted. The Yuqiu family's treasury is exhausted, and no one can raise troops to protect it.
Their safety. When Sakai Town is occupied by other daimyo, will anyone be willing to give them such great power?" Yu Qiuping had already thought about this question, so he answered quickly.
"What about the treasury? Your Highness has handed over the treasury to them. From now on, the Yuqiu family will need to approve the budget from them! How can anyone leave the family's treasury in the hands of a businessman?" Amano Jingde found that Yu Qiuping seemed to still have money.
Not realizing the seriousness of the problem, his voice was trembling with anxiety, "We need money for everything we do. If we want to build a city, we need their approval. If we want to send troops, we need their approval. As long as they don't approve, we can't do anything!"
In other words, our Yuqiu family can only do what their merchants want to do! If they want to open a trade route to the West, they may let us go to the Shanyang Road. As long as our budget is not for conquering the mountains
Yang Dao, they will not approve it at all and force us to fight. They want to engage in sea trade, so they force us to build ships and maintain routes. In this way, won’t our Yuqiu family become the thugs of the Sakai merchants? "
"What you said is correct..." Yu Qiuping was speechless again by Amano Keide's questioning, and smiled awkwardly, "But you have to think about it, the financial resources mobilized by the businessmen are ours
The Yuqiu family’s agricultural tax revenue is several times higher! By then, the Yuqiu family’s strength will also be expanded several times!”
"But if the family's autonomy in strategy is lost, what's the point of being strong? If Your Highness, you are ignored, what's the point of being strong as the Yuqiu family?" Amano Keide asked almost like a barrage.
, "And the law enforcement power, are we really going to hand it over to Hatakeyama Takamasa? How much effort did we waste in order to take back the law enforcement power in the territory? Your Highness, you
Have you forgotten?"
"If all the courts and judgments in the territory are handed over to Hatakeyama Takamasa, then our Yuqiu family's authority to influence the people will be greatly reduced, and they will turn to rely on Hatakeyama Takamasa! As long as Hatakeyama Takamasa does not convict them,
Even if they resist the orders of the Yuqiu family, nothing will happen! Those small wealthy families who support Hatakeyama's high politics can also dominate!" Amano Keide reminded him coldly again.
"No." Having said this, Yu Qiuping shook his head quite confidently, "His Royal Highness Hatakeyama is a gentleman, who attaches great importance to laws and disciplines, and cherishes his own reputation. He will never make arbitrary judgments.
! He will definitely abide by the law and handle affairs, which will in turn enhance the authority of the Yuqiu family."
"Your Highness, do you place your family's interests on trust in a person's character? Are you crazy, Your Highness?" Amano Kagetori almost burst into tears when he heard this and said sternly: "Your Highness, please think about it clearly! These three people
The separation of powers will push the Yuqiu family to a dead end! If the power cannot be taken back, the Yuqiu family will be in doom! It’s not too late to intercept the eldest son and the second son now! Otherwise, it will be overturned and difficult to recover!"
"How many people have the same opinion as you?" Yu Qiuping suddenly asked a question.
"Sanada-sama and Sena-sama are all in agreement with me, and Takenaka-sama also has some objections." Amano Keitoku stated the opinions of others in a low voice, "Although the brothers who followed the Imagawa family in the army said that no matter what His Highness did,
No matter what decision is made, they will firmly support it. But like the soldiers of Owari Mino, they all do not understand why His Highness would give up the power of the Yuqiu family so much."
After hearing this, Yu Qiuping just sighed. "To be honest, I am actually very confident in this system. This is not a product of my imagination. There are countries in the southern barbarians that are already using it. Maybe,
You can call it a 'mercantilism system'. Although the differences are not small, there are still similarities."
"How can those ghost and barbarian things be deviant and deviant, how can we imitate them?" Amano Jingtoku exclaimed when he heard that Yu Qiuping actually borrowed the system from the southern barbarians.
"Don't you guys use iron cannons well? Why can't the Nanman stuff work!" Yu Qiuping was talked about by Amano Jingde for a long time, and his anger became slightly higher, "Anyway, I can't tell you, from your point of view
, all this is indeed unreasonable. But in our same era, Charlie's home country is using a similar system! And I can predict that in the future, this system will also be used in Japan! Although it may be too advanced,
It may not be in line with the current actual situation, but given time, it is really feasible! Time will prove it! What's more, at this moment, if we don't make concessions, the Yuqiu family may be completely wiped out by the enemy!"
"Why does Your Highness predict the future?"
"I can do it." Yu Qiuping said in a deep voice with unprecedented firmness, "Believe me."
Amano Jingde looked at Yu Qiuping with a confused expression, and Yu Qiuping suddenly felt his heart tightening.
"Kwon Bingwei, you swore to follow me to the death, has your determination wavered now?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, no. It is precisely because I have sworn to die for the Yuqiu family that I must resolutely stop Your Highness from doing this!" Amano Jingde said righteously and sternly.
"Since you have sworn to die for me, please execute your Highness's order!" Yu Qiuping said in a stern voice, "Execute the order! Amano Jingtoku!"
Amano Jingtoku trembled when he heard this, but he did not hesitate, but immediately shouted in a low voice: "Yes! Your Highness!"
Chapter completed!