In the feudal era, the status of merchants was extremely low. In the final analysis, they disrupted social stability.
In the eyes of the rulers, warriors fight, farmers cultivate, craftsmen make, and even religion has the effect of numbing the untouchables and easing conflicts.
What is the use of a businessman?
Except for a few necessities such as salt, iron and cloth, for feudal lords, unchanging stability was more conducive to rule than the circulation of population and materials.
Businessmen are just a bunch of bastards who buy low and sell high, disrupting social stability for their own selfish interests.
All the farmers were working hard, and suddenly a few businessmen came.
They say that the village next door is suitable for farming. You don’t have much food for farming in the mountains and valleys here. Why not grow hemp? We will be responsible for the distribution and we will make a profit.
It seems that the two villages exchanged supplies and both took advantage. But in a disaster year, the food in the neighboring village is not enough for us. What should we do?
More than half of the farmers in the hemp-growing village starved to death, and more than half of the land was taken away by merchants in exchange for grain. Do the Wu family in the village hate the merchants?
There is no stability without food, and the ability to resist risks in the agricultural era is extremely poor. If there is not enough food, people will have to die until they can eat enough.
People are so hungry that they lose their senses, and the riots caused are serious things that shake the foundation of rule.
If businessmen are indulged, their greed will easily lead to chaos in the event of natural or man-made disasters.
Therefore, businessmen must be suppressed.
For merchants, ancient history is a history of blood and tears of oppression. The rulers were not good men and women, and swords were more powerful than money.
If the Wu family hadn't been in trouble and needed to use businessmen to raise military expenses, these rent-seeking bastards wouldn't be worthy of entering the Wu family's eyes.
Takada Yono was willing to do business and make agreements with the merchants in Sakai Port with a kind face. This was out of consideration for the interests of the Shiba family.
When she encounters a crisis where her family's business is unstable, she will immediately tear off her face and eat them alive, not caring about the anger of the businessmen at all.
What does it have to do with you if I destroy you? How many divisions do you have? No, how many reserve units do you have?
In Sakai Port, Takada Yono's only concern was the Miyoshi family, but things were different now.
As a result, Shiba Yiyin was trapped in Yuezhong, so the Shiba family allocated a large amount of resources to support the governor, which emptied the family fortune and even affected the Omi war after the spring plowing.
This is a crisis that shakes the foundation, but there is an opportunity in the crisis. It is also an excellent opportunity for Takada Haruno to show her value and improve herself.
As long as she can raise a large amount of supplies to help the Sibo family survive this disaster, the various forces in the Sibo family will have to pay attention to her existence.
Only by proving one's own strength and making contributions can one have the right to speak and be qualified to participate in the fight for one's parents-in-law.
She will be the sixth force recognized by the four parties of the Shiba family, Maeda Yoshie, Shima Katsuruo, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Yamanaka Niko, after Maeda Toshiie.
Since the Wu family generally despises business, this opportunity is rare.
Even if Sakai Port's numerous big businessmen were wiped out and their wealth was destroyed, and her reputation for fair trade was destroyed, she still had to help the Shiba family get through this.
This is to tide over the difficulties for the leader, and also to prove his worth. Takada Yono has already clearly calculated the pros and cons.
If Tsuda Muneki doesn't get her wits about her, she will really kill people and steal goods.
Secondly, at this time, the situation in Nishikonji was no longer what it was when the Shiba family settled in Sakai Port.
At the time of the Kinsho War, Miyoshi Chokei withdrew with hatred, and due to various political considerations, allowed the Shiba family forces to enter Sakai Port.
At that time, Miyoshi was strong, the Shogunate was weak, and the Shiba family was dancing on a tightrope.
When the power of the Mihaoshi family retreats, it is a retracted fist that can be punched out at any time.
The Shiba Shinsengumi is the human alarm that stands in front of the shogunate. Once the Miyoshi family attacks the Shinsengumi, it will be a harbinger of another war.
Therefore, for the sake of the overall situation, the Miyoshi family turned a blind eye to the Shiba family's team stationed in Sakai Port, so that the Shinsengumi had room to operate.
But even so, Takada Yono did not dare to go too far.
The Shiba family had prestige but no strength, so they could only frighten the merchants through the Ikedaya incident, and with the acquiescence of the Miyoshi family, they managed to gain a foothold in Sakai Port.
Nowadays, the Shiba family has successfully integrated the local powerful factions. Izumi, Kitakawachi, Kitadawa, and Iga have become one and united.
In the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiteru relied heavily on him to clean up the ministers and reorganize the internal affairs, showing a prosperous rise.
On the other hand, after the death of Miyoshi Yoshihide in the Miyoshi family, the remaining three members of the Miyoshi family inherited her dissatisfaction with Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, the heir.
The conflict between the two sides has become increasingly fierce, even involving Anzhai Dongkang, one of the Mihaoshi and Four Sisters. The Three Kingdoms and Four Sisters system on which Mihaoshi Changqing was founded is on the verge of collapse.
At this time, how could the Miyoshi family be willing to go to war with the local powerful faction of the shogunate, or even the entire shogunate, over a trivial matter involving a few merchants in Sakai Port?
What Takada Haruno did was not for himself, but for the leader of the local powerful faction, Shiba Yoshigan.
Even if the matter becomes a big deal, Ashikaga Yoshiteru will still support her.
As Takada Yono said, in the face of the political situation of confrontation between the Miyoshi shogunate, the Tsuda clan and the so-called Sakai Port big businessman were just p.
Imai Munehisa is a famous big businessman, a big tea man, and he can be regarded as a good person.
However, the inherent shortcomings of her business background made her political sensitivity far inferior to that of Takada Haruno, so she put the cart before the horse and misjudged the matter.
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Iga country, Kogaguchi.
The four channels of the Iga Basin are connected to the outside, and the one corresponding to the Minami Omi is the Koga Pass.
To the north of the Suzuka Mountains is Minami Omi, to the south is Iga Country to the west, and to the east is Ise Country. This mountainous area is the dividing line between Tokaido and Konko.
Suzuka Pass, located in Ise, is one of the three passes that separate Kanto and Kansai in a broad sense.
Maeda's interests had already led the flag base to the vicinity of Kakakou and stationed themselves at Onizu Village, waiting for the spring plowing to assemble the army and go to war.
On this day, Otani Yoshitsugi received an urgent message from Maeda's interests and came to the garrison for military discussions.
Wrapped in white cloth and holding a flag, she quickly walked into Maeda Yoshi's shogunate, only to find that all the villages under Yu Ye had already arrived.
Otani Yoshitsugi frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong. During spring plowing time, people everywhere were busy, and all the fields were harvested, which might cause dissatisfaction.
She and Maeda benefited from each other's greetings, but stopped talking.
Maeda Yoshida shook his head and said.
"The spring plowing in the villages of Yuye is already halfway through. The departure of the fields will not affect the plowing. Everything that needs to be explained has been explained.
You take a look at this first."
Otani Yoshitsugi cursed, even if you don't need to arrange it, your farmland will always look good. You will not be popular if you do this.
She took the document, glanced at it, and looked solemn for a moment. Something big had happened, and she asked.
"Master Shima has already set off?"
Maeda nodded.
"Master Nizi had already set off when he sent the letter."
"How much munitions reserves are left for us?"
"One out of ten does not save one."
Otani Yoshitsugi was silent, she must not show any dissatisfaction about this matter.
The Lord's kindness to her is as great as a mountain. Now that something happened in the middle of Yue, the minister should go to pieces to repay her kindness.
But the battle in Iga has to be fought. How can we fight without supplies?
Spring plowing is halfway through, and not to mention what's going on in Mino, there's already action in the Minami River in the north.
Most of Otani Yoshitsugi's subordinates were members of the samurai family who could no longer live under the Rokkaku family of Minami Omi and came to seek refuge. There was constant news about their relatives there.
The Rokkajia family has begun to collect military and food services, raise supplies, and mobilize the people, which has caused complaints from the lower-level martial arts families.
After years of fighting, the Rokkajia family was once knocked back to its original shape. The little warriors were already resentful because they did not reap much profit but were taxed to their waists due to heavy taxes.
Rokkaku Yoshihide also understood that the more unstable the lower class was, the more they needed to use the proceeds from the Northern Expedition to fill the dissatisfaction of the lower class, so they were even more active in preparing for war.
Iga only had one hundred thousand koku, so he was already weak. Now that he was short of supplies, the situation was even worse. How could he fight?
Otani Yoshitsugi asked.
"If the supplies are not in order, what will happen to the war?"