After half a day of discussion, Yi Yin finally found a way to increase fiscal revenue. Yi Yin felt a little happy, but after the excitement, he felt a little tired.
After asking Kamao clan to send Zhu Ji out, Yoshigami sat on the main seat with his eyes closed and calmed down. Unexpectedly, Ii Naomasa, who was obediently staying at the bottom, actually took the initiative to start a conversation.
"Sage, I think the two adults at the monastery and the promotion association are very selfish.
Ina Chuji-sama clearly had the heart to repay the kindness of the saint, so he resolutely proposed the strategy of making money from Tongshan.
The two adults, Da Xiong and Da Zang, have restricted their words for their own selfish purposes, which is chilling."
Yoshigan reluctantly opened his eyes and looked at Ii Naomasa who looked upright.
"How many times have I told you not to be so upright and extreme? You always look like there is no room for sand in your eyes.
You still have a long way to go in the future. After you have offended everyone, how will you survive in the future?"
Naomasa Ii bowed solemnly.
"I am not afraid of eating the emperor's salary, worrying about the emperor, and being loyal to the emperor. I am not afraid of being offended by those who are like flies and dogs."
Yiyin sighed.
"You are not afraid, I am.
I have taken you with you for so many years and watched you grow from a little girl to a beautiful young lady now. I don’t want to see you offend your colleagues and struggle to move forward."
Hearing Yoshigan say that he was beautiful, Ii Naomasa couldn't help but blush, and pretended not to care.
"Loyalty to the emperor is not guilty."
Yiyin shook his head and said.
"Loyalty to the emperor is not a sin, but having selfish motives among subordinates is not a sin either.
How many people in the martial arts family in the world have no selfish motives? If I really want to promote talents based on selfless motives, how many people will be left for me to use?
If the water is clear, there will be no fish, you should understand this truth."
Yiyin only said half of what he said.
In fact, people can only be controlled if they are selfish. If everyone is not selfish, the boss will not be happy, and may be scared to death.
How can there be so many Hai Rui in the world? Is it possible that everyone is honest, impartial and strict? There are so many hypocrites under his command, and the life of the boss is not easy.
Although Ii Naomasa was not convinced, he couldn't help but feel soft when he saw Yoshigan trying to teach him a lesson even though he was exhausted, and he lowered his head and said.
"The saints instruct me, and I would like to be taught by you."
Yoshigan understood Ii Naomasa's temper very well and knew that she was dissatisfied, but he was too lazy to talk nonsense.
I can't explain the reason to this half-grown girl. She just has been cheated too much and can't turn her head around. If she falls hard in the future, she will know the pain.
Anyway, with her own backing, she won't be beaten to death and never be able to recover, so just let her be.
If even Ii Naomasa can see the problem, can Yoshihiro, a man who has been tricked, see it?
It's just that the rivalry between the Enforcement Office and the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association is within a tolerable range, so Yiyin pretends not to see it.
If you run the country with your family and talk nonsense, strange things will not happen. What is so surprising?
The Kanto Imperial Palace is called the Shogunate Office, and it is actually a tool for Yoshinobu to control Kanto.
Institutionally, the Grand Council is the highest authority, and the United Front represents the martial arts families from all over the country. It forms a mechanism for the nobles to discuss together. It can be said to be a political platform that represents the interests of the broadest range of Kanto martial arts families.
But in fact, Shiba's retainers in the Kanto Palace are always superior to others. They represent the will of the saints, and their actual power often overrides the grand council system.
Yiyin needs to maintain this privilege of being superior to others in order to exercise his power, but his subordinates will also use this privilege to seek personal gain.
What would happen even if Yiyin knew about it? He couldn't eradicate his own power base.
Before the arrival of a great era when ordinary people can be the masters of their own country, the power structure of ancient rulers must be a model of upward responsibility at all levels.
Otherwise, the rulers will not be able to exploit the ruled while firmly suppressing the resistance from the ruled.
To make the ruled surrender and maintain the ruler's power, the ruler must do two things.
First, the ruling class has relatively complete organizational capabilities and can mobilize sufficient power to suppress the ruled.
Second, the ruling class must try its best to divide the ruled, making them atomized and powerless, and unable to organize the power to effectively resist the rulers.
In this island country with a population of 10 million, the samurai group is the ruling class. Yiyin wants to unite one million samurai families to rule the nine million untouchables.
But from the perspective of the ruling group, Yiyin wants to use power institutions like the Kanto Palace to rule most of the middle- and lower-class samurai families.
From a more micro perspective, Yiyin wants to use his cronies to rule the power structure of the Kanto Palace.
As for his cronies, if he doesn't feed them first, can he still be called his cronies? Can Yiyin still rule them?
This is one layer wrapped up in another. The core Yi Bank seems to have great power, but in fact these powers come from the mechanism of accountability at all levels. He must maintain the stability of this political structure.
As long as the bottom line is not touched on the struggle for power among cronies, Yiyin will treat it leniently because this is his fundamentals.
The Shiba clan was wiped out, and then Yiyin revived the family business. In fact, he established a new Shiba family from scratch.
This new Shiba family is a loose family that relies on Yiyin's unparalleled record, financial offensive, and physical bribery to stick together.
Because the sources of retainers are complicated and their control is weak, in many matters, Yiyin can use the situation to its advantage, but it cannot forcefully act recklessly.
In Ii Naomasa's mind, the selection criteria for Shiba's retainers must be loyal, but Yoshihiro couldn't even think about it. Without the accumulation of several generations, how could it be possible to cultivate a generation with the same mind and heart.
Not to mention anything else, just the dispute between the Sanctuary and the Samurai Giri Promotion Association that Ii Naomasa is talking about now, it is difficult for Yi Bank to show partiality.
Okuma Asahide of the execution office was a former guardian of Echigo. She had a deep hatred for the Nagao family in Fuchu, the core family of Kenshin Uesugi.
Even if she surrendered, the other party didn't want to let her go easily, and in the end she was forced to rebel.
Yiyin is the savior of Daxiong Chaoxiu, the thigh that she must hug tightly. Without Yiyin's support, she, the remnant of the old guardian, will sooner or later be eaten up and wiped out, and her whole family will be killed.
Therefore, although Tohide Ohkuma, an Echigo native, was not a retainer of Shiba, he was even more loyal than a retainer of Shiba.
The more she gets from Yiyin, the less she dares to leave the shelter of the Sibo family. Because without the grace of the saint, the wealth she possesses is like a fatal noose.
Ozo Choan of the Samurai Giri Promotion Association was recommended by the Kaga Maeda family of Kinki. He was an accomplice sent by Maeda’s interests and belonged to the foreign Kinki sect.
Ina Chuji, who works with her, comes from the Owari Maeda family. He is a retainer recommended by the Maeda Toshie family and belongs to the Owari sect from outside.
If there is a conflict between the local faction and the outside faction, and the interests of the two sides are inconsistent, they will inevitably form a group to exclude each other and fight with each other.
The foreign schools of Kinki and Owari have their own origins, and naturally they have conflicts with each other.
In recent years, the Kanto Temple has expanded very well, and the practice institute and the Samurai Giri Promotion Association have developed rapidly. We have more people to support and more money, so it is strange that there are no disputes.
If Yiyin really wanted to take care of these messy nonsense, he would be too exhausted to take care of it!
That's why he chose to turn a blind eye, beat anyone who stepped on the bottom line, and let them fight on their own for other matters.
Ii Naomasa was still well protected by Yoshihiro, and she never had to choose between two bad choices that was not too bad. That's why she was so young, energetic and ungrounded.
Yiyin likes her energetic look, and he doesn't want to be demoralized by trivial matters every day, but there's nothing he can do about it.
Therefore, while Yoshihiro was teaching Ii Naomasa a lesson, he was envious of the beauty of being young, but he didn't really dislike Ii Naomasa's behavior.
Ii Naomasa was taught a lesson by Yoshihiro, but his energy was not dampened, but he talked about another thing.
"Sage, I think it is incredible that the rebels evacuated 500,000 gu of supplies along the middle and lower reaches of the Tone River.
That was 500,000 guan of supplies, which were piled up like a mountain and were emptied out in less than twenty days. How is this possible?
The rebels did not have such strong transportation capabilities, not to mention that the war had not stopped at that time, and most of the people had to rush to the front line to fight.
It’s understandable to take more food, but how can the rebels have the intention to loot all the heavy water conservancy materials such as wood and stone?”
Yoshigan glanced at the indignant Ii Naomasa and asked calmly.
"Then what do you think?"
Ii Naomasa sneered.
"It must be that he was always guarding and stealing, and when the opportunity came, he pulled out the trick of burning the warehouse with fire dragons and borrowing food from the underworld soldiers, which just made up for the shortfall in the books."
Yiyin asked again.
"Then do you have evidence?"
Naomasa Ii said, scratching his neck.
"I can send people to check, but I don't believe they can do it flawlessly and not reveal any flaws.
The sage is kind and does not want to delve into many things, but even if you are growing flowers, you must always prune the branches and leaves, so as not to grow branches and lose the tolerance, let alone it is a national event.
You have to give the people below a lesson, so that they have some scruples and some sense of propriety in doing things, so as to prevent the grassroots from losing control."
Yiyin thought for a moment and asked.
"How do you want to check?"
Naomasa Ii bowed.
"I recommend a person to investigate. This person is honest, upright, and has outstanding abilities. He can be of great use."
"who?"
"The sage has seen her. Her name is Naoyoshi Hanzawa. She is a member of Shiba's establishment and is affiliated with Wenzhu Fang."
Yiyin nodded.
"It turns out it's her."
Yoshigan certainly remembers Hanzawa Naoyoshi. Yuigahama Yui admired her very much and helped Yuigahama Yui a lot before and after pregnancy.
For the sake of the daughter who has a hidden identity, Yiyin must remember this and not forget it.
Yiyin thought.
"Hanzawa Naoyoshi is good. Are you going to let her come to Kanto to investigate the emptying of the 500,000 Guan?"
Naomasa Ii bowed.
"Hey, I have this idea.
But Hanzawa Naoyi cannot leave for the time being, because Yuigahama Yui-sama still needs her help for a while, and it may have to wait until late winter and spring before he can leave his business and come to Kanto."
Yiyin nodded.
"Yes, let her check it out next spring.
Wenzhu Fang has the function of correcting and archiving errors. She is from Kinki and has no entanglements with the Kanto samurai family, so the results of the investigation are fair."
As soon as he heard that Naoyi Banzawa was taking care of the mother of his child, Yoshigami was naturally not in a hurry, and thought that after the investigation was completed, he would give Naoyoshi Banzawa a little reward, which would be a reward for her helping the right person.
But what Yoshigami didn't know was that Naomasa Ii, who seemed to him still childish, was no longer as stupid as before after being immersed in the past few years.
Naomasa Ii mentioned the former thing just for the sake of the latter.
Deliberately raising the issue between Daxiong Chaohide and Dazo Changan, Ii Naomasa is looking for scolding. Her real purpose is to clear out the 500,000 yuan.
Naomasa Ii is the second-ranking figure in Tongxinzhong, and is in charge of the supervision department. Her authority destined her to be a lonely minister with a cold eyebrow.
She gossiped about the observance center and the promotion association, but the saint would not care about it. On the contrary, it was a derived warehouse problem, which made it easier for the saint to recognize her.
Supervising the work of the people below is itself the scope of Naomasa Ii's responsibility.
Yiyin does not allow her to target senior officials such as Daxiong Chaoxiu and Dazang Changan, but she can't even look at the middle and lower-level people in the warehouse, right?
After destroying the enthusiasm of the supervisory department, how can we supervise the work of the subordinates in the future?
Therefore, after Ii Naomasa paved the way for the former matter, the saint will most likely agree to the latter matter.
Ii Naomasa didn't let Hanzawa Naoyoshi come over now, not to help Yuigahama Yui, but because she had an appointment with Takada Yukino.
The agreed one-year period has not passed yet, and Hanzawa Naoyoshi will stay in Tawenshan Castle and grow hair.
But after the one-year period passed, Hanzawa Naoyoshi went to Kanto and his party not to investigate the issue of the emptied warehouse of 500,000 guan.
Instead, they were looking for evidence of Takata Harano's collusion with the Kanto people, and breached Takata Harano's moat from the side.
Naomasa Ii found a good reason for Naoyoshi Hanzawa to cover up her real target.
However, what Ii Naomasa didn't know was that Takada Haruno had also been looking forward to Hanzawa Naoyoshi's trip to Kanto.
Only by lifting the devastation under the fig leaf of the Kanto Palace, can Takada Yono take advantage of the opportunity to trigger a financial crisis, completely clear out his overwhelming debts, and throw the trouble to Kanto.
From this point of view, perhaps the only real fool is Yi Yin himself.
Everyone was making political calculations, but he was the only one who foolishly thought about his wife and children. While he was worried that Naomasa Ii was too naive, he was grateful to Naoyoshi Hanzawa for taking care of his woman and children.
If Yiyin learns the truth, I wonder if he will sigh with emotion from the bottom of his heart.
What the heck, the clown is actually me!
Ii Naomasa felt so guilty that he glanced at Yoshiyin, feeling that it was inappropriate and a bit... irritating that he was playing tricks on the saint.
There is a first time for everything. Once you break through one level, you will go deep into the next level. You must obey the Lord, admire the Lord, trick the Lord, and covet the Lord until...
The mental process of a girl's growth is so simple and clear, the same is true for Kamao clan, and the same is true for Ii Naomasa.
Not long after Yoshihiro and Ii Naomasa finished talking, the Kamao family returned from seeing off their guests and came in with a letter in their hands.
"Sage, this is an urgent message from Lord Akechi Mitsuhide of Fushimi Castle."
Yiyin took a deep breath and reached for the letter. He actually didn't want to read the letter. If he didn't open it, he would know that there was trouble inside.