The public enjoys the right to be exempted from local taxes. Of course, if you do business, you still have to deal with customs fees and miscellaneous taxes in various places. However, the tribute in Shangluo is different. Historically, the manor has only withheld tribute, and there is no reason for tribute to be withheld halfway.
, the embezzlement party can use natural disasters and military chaos as an excuse, and the only reason for interception is greed. A lord who is greedy for everything without knowing the importance is easily attacked by everyone, so the Kira family wants to use the excuse of paying tribute every year.
Obtaining profits is indeed a tricky idea.
It is already remarkable that the people of Mikawa can think of this level. On a deeper level, only Nobuzada Ohuchi can think of it. He wants to use the opportunity of transporting the Kira family's own sea salt to Luo to open up the salt sales channel from the Kira family to Sakamoto.
, the promise of the Owari Tsushima Ohashi family cannot satisfy his appetite, and only the farther Gyeonggi area is the best choice to maximize profits.
"The price of salt in the Kinai is uneven. Crude sea salt costs around 500 franc per stone, and slightly pure sea salt costs around 500 franc per stone. The refined sea salt produced by our salt pond has never appeared in the ki Nei. It is not right to cause high prices in the short term.
Question... However, for long-term operations, it is still necessary to control prices, transport transfers, and manage the expenses of the people. The average price is about three guanwen per stone. As long as we set the price at least six guanwen, we can get half of the profit."
The annual salt production of the Kira family's own salt ponds basically maintains the level of 3,000 to 3,000 koku. Including the salt ponds of the first generation, the total is more than 8,000 koku. The trade routes of Tokaido currently only maintain Owari, Ise, and Toe.
Separate salt houses have been set up to distribute refined sea salt. In order to prevent the Imagawa family from coveting them, there are no plans to set up a salt house in Suruga yet. The production method of refined sea salt has been monopolized by one branch of the Kira family, and it is currently in a monopoly position.
Of course, the big businessmen in Owari and Ise have noticed that the refined sea salt of the Kira family is extraordinary. In addition to eating a large amount, they have not given up the intention to arbitrage the technology. In the Tokaido and Mino areas, they can digest more than 3,000 koku.
As for table salt, merchants traveling to and from Kanto in recent years would eat a large amount of refined sea salt every time they stopped in Sanhe, as a regular means of returning goods to preserve their capital.
The sales volume of refined sea salt has grown steadily. Last year, a total of 4,200 stones were sold. However, there is still a long way to go before the inventory is sold out. A large amount of it has been put into the market and it is worried about rapid depreciation. Therefore, the Kira family has been reluctant to sell it for several years. If this happens
The first successful establishment of a salt house in Sakamoto, the Kinai's throughput of salt, let alone three thousand koku, could be distributed even if it was five thousand koku, and the profit was an astonishing figure. As the ruler of Sakamoto Castle Town, Kira Yoshitoki could also
Get great tax returns.
Kira Yoshitoshi told Okouchi Motaka: "Go back and tell Tajima Mamoru that our family has understood his plan! Let him prepare enough new salt and wait for the good news from our family!"
"I must report it as soon as possible. Does the master have any other instructions?"
"Just let Tajima Mamoru maintain his current state. The Imagawa family will be very happy with the trend of Mikawa's power appearing to be in harmony with the spirit. We warn those retainers with illusions not to dream about the reunification of the two Kiraras. It will only bring disaster to the two families. This sentence
Please ask Tajima Mamoru to tell it to my brother!" Kira Yoshiki frowned slightly, but decided it would be better to clarify what he said.
Mikawa doesn't have the great wisdom of the samurai family, but he has a lot of tricks and crooked thoughts. In terms of bravery, he is not much inferior to the Kanto samurai, but he can't change his short-sighted stereotypes. Kira Yoshiki has no intention to correct these short-sighted guys. Mikawa's split is in line with the Imagawa family.
His own interests were also in line with Kira Yoshitoki's interests. He wished that the Matsudaira family could be divided into eight parts and each could be independent and independent. Of course, he could not say this out loud, he could only understand it and teach it to others.
In early May, Takigawa Masushige, who was the most polished navy general of the Kira family, found Kira Yoshi: "Master! This family cannot live without its own navy. If Gyeonggi has such abundant inland waterways, it will be a waste of God's gift if we don't make good use of them."
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"That's right! I have never thought about this problem before! What does Yi Zhong mean?"
"Please, Lord Master, allow me to return to Shima and recruit a group of sailors for my family!" Takikawa Masushige bowed his head.
"Recruiting? No problem!" Kira Yoshihi nodded to acknowledge his proposal, and then raised a new question: "But how can we build a ship if we don't have shipwrights? It seems very expensive to hire shipwrights in Sakai Town!"
"Let me do this for you! In addition to the navy, our Shima country has boatmen and fishermen. I dare not say that if there are more than a hundred boatmen, we can still pull it over!" Takigawa Masushige said with confidence.
"That's it! Then leave it to Yizhong to do it! Once it's done, you will be a veritable navy general of our family!"
"My wish is to command the Iron Artillery Corps for the Master! Since I have not been to the sea in the past few years and have been practicing the art of Iron Artillery, I kindly ask the Master to allow me to transfer the Iron Artillery General after I leave." He seemed to think of the Iron Artillery Corps when he mentioned the Iron Artillery Corps.
Takigawa Masushige once said that he was good at iron artillery and wanted to be an iron artillery general. This was the position he hoped for when he became an official. He did not change his original intention even after serving as a bare commander for half a year. He was really a persistent guy.
"Okay! That's up to you! But you have to recruit a qualified navy general for our family! He must not be a half-ass!"
"Yes!" Takigawa Masashige bowed and stepped back excitedly.
Not long after, Takigawa Masushige brought more than a hundred boatmen as promised, and more than two hundred sailors accompanied him. Their leader was Kuuki Shigetaka, who was born in the Shima Kuuki family. Kuuki Shigetaka was the current head of the Kuuki clan, Kuuki Taitaka.
His second son, his elder brother is the heir to the family governor, Kuuki Sadataka. Because he has no inheritance rights in the Kuuki family, he was attracted by fellow villager Takikawa Masushige to join the Kira family.
"So you are from the Kuuki family! Isn't your family the Kuuki family of the Kumano clan? Later, because the clan failed to compete for the leadership position, you went to Shima to become a Japanese, right?"
Kuuki Shigetaka said excitedly: "Yes! My family is the Kumano Kuuki family!"
"Isn't your family a powerful member of the Shima Kingdom? How could you think of defecting to my family?" Kira Yoshi had never heard of Kuuki Shigetaka at that time, so he couldn't help but doubt his intentions.
"Because of the intervention of the Kitahata family of Ise Province, the situation of my family has become worse than before."
The Kuki family has not been doing well in recent years. The reason is that the Kitahata family, the national secretary of Ise, has extended its tentacles to Shima country. As the leader of Shima's seven parties and the largest force in Hoshio County, the Kuki family must face the power of the Kitahata family.
Under pressure, in the face of the menacing Ise Kuniji, the Kuuki family naturally did not want to sit back and wait for death. In recent years, the Kuuki family has enlisted the Shima Seven Party to fight against the Kitahata family. However, as the Kitahata family's large-scale intervention became more and more obvious, they fell in favor of the Kitahata family.
There are more and more wealthy families, and the Kuuki family, the temporary leader of Shima Kingdom, is becoming more and more sad.
Therefore, the second son of the Jiugui family, Chonglong, once thought about seeking foreign aid, but no one could save them at this time. After many disappointments, Chonglong began to be pessimistic about the future of the Jiugui family. At this time, he encountered another
Takigawa Masushige learned from him that he was already a retainer of the Kira family, and that his brother Takigawa Kazumasushi also served in the Oda family, so Kuki Shigetaka's thoughts suddenly came to life.
When Takikawa Masushige invited him to serve in the Kira family, Kuuki Shigetaka agreed without hesitation, and then recruited more than a hundred people who followed him, including retainers of the same clan and old friends from the same hometown, as well as people recruited by Takigawa Masushige through old relationships.
More than a hundred navy troops went to Beijing together.
Later, Yoshitoki Kira asked some basic questions about navy operations, and appointed Kuuki Shigetaka as the navy general of the Kira family with a salary of two hundred years. The more than 200 sailors were his subordinates. Kuuki Shigetaka was the first one after he took office.
I made a proposal for one thing: "Please, the owner of the museum, in the name of discussing Sakamoto water transport matters, invite the people of Yodogawa to discuss!"
"Sakamoto water transport everything? I understand! Are you planning to control the inland water army?" Kira Yoshitsune praised: "This is indeed a good idea!"
