This time the Oda family invaded Mino, it can be said that it was full of twists and turns. The Oda family won first and then lost. At one time, they were forced into a desperate situation by Saito's army. It was only thanks to the hard work of Ikeda Tsuneaki and Sasana Narimasa that they could pull back One city.
After the war, the Oda army had to withdraw to Owari due to heavy damage to the troops and the burning of food and grass. After Uakihira disbanded the auxiliary troops in the territory, he followed Oda Nobunaga back to Qingshu. Convene a post-war evaluation meeting.
Oda Nobunaga praised Ikeda Tsuneaki and Sasaki Namasa for their great contributions. They were each given 2,000 koku of land. Sasaka Namasa was also promoted to a general in the family as a female maiden. And Ame Akihei , Mori Katsunari and Shibata Katsuie, although they did not perform well in the offense and defense outside Jujujo Village, they also received Oda Nobunaga's testimonials as praise for their hard work in Moribe.
However, what Yu Qiuping cares about the most is Saito Ryuuki. Yu Qiuping clearly remembers that in various historical materials, storytelling, and games in the future, Saito Ryuuxing was a famous "Adou" character. , has no other talents except for debauchery and debauchery. However, the performance of the Saito army in this battle was quite remarkable. However, the retainers of the Oda family, including Oda Nobunaga, still I didn't take Saito Ryuuki seriously.
Perhaps because he was deeply embarrassed by being forced into a desperate situation by Saito's army, Oda Nobunaga belittled the Saito family. He believed that this battle was caused by the Oda family's own negligence and bad luck. If it hadn't been for God Heavy rain washed away the pontoon, and the main force of the Oda family was not too late to rescue the Nineteen Villages. As for Saito's army's feint, Oda Nobunaga believed that this must be the result of two experienced men, Naomichi Takekow and Higeno Hiro. What Mr. Su came up with has nothing to do with Saito Ryuuki's showmanship.
Now that Oda Nobunaga has spoken, others naturally followed his wishes and mocked Saito Ryuuki. After all, in the final analysis, the Oda family won this battle.
The impact of this battle far exceeded the strategic significance of the battle itself.
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First of all, what made everyone in the Oda family extremely happy was that Mino once again fell into an internal struggle for power. The invasion of the Oda family eased and transferred the conflict between the Mino wealthy family and the Saito family to a certain extent. When Oda Nobunaga retreated, the conflict broke out It surfaced again. The three Simino people condemned Naomitsu Takekaya and Higeno Hiroshi for failing to properly mentor Saito Ryuuki, which led to the defeat of the Nineteen Villages, and demanded that the two immediately withdraw from the center and give up their positions as assistants. To the leaders of the wealthy clans. If the power in the hands of Saito Ryuuki cannot be restricted, they believe that the willful Saito Ryuuki will lead Mino to destruction sooner or later. The Naoomi faction accuses many wealthy families in Simino of sitting back and watching the main family and the weaving. The Tian family fought hard for a long time, but refused to send reinforcements. They were suspected of disloyalty and threatened to confiscate their territory. There were constant overt and covert fights between the two, which made it difficult for them to fight.
The mess at home and the big defeat he just suffered also made Saito Ryuuki very angry. He wanted to use thunderous means to centralize power to stabilize the situation, but found that he was gradually losing power and could not do anything. The huge gap made this The young man who was not yet mature enough was so disheartened that he actually began to indulge in drinking and sex all day long - which also made the wealthy Simeon family even more dissatisfied.
What worried Oda Nobunaga when he arrived was the anger of Oda Nobukiyo, the lord of Inuyama Castle.
During this battle, Oda Nobunaga fell into the Saito family's scheme and failed to rescue the Nineteen Villages in time, resulting in the annihilation of the 500 reinforcements sent by Inuyama Castle, and Oda Nobuhiko even died in the battle. Inuyama Castle The Oda family could only mobilize about 2,000 troops in total, and they lost a quarter in one fell swoop, which can be described as a heavy loss. Oda Nobuyoshi is also Oda Nobukiyo's most beloved brother, and he has watched this docile brother grow up since he was a child. , the relationship between brothers was extremely deep. His death made Oda Nobukiyo extremely angry. He suspected that Oda Nobunaga deliberately did not reinforce his younger brother and wanted to weaken the strength of the Inuyama Oda family by borrowing a knife to kill someone.
In order to appease Oda Nobukiyo's anger, Oda Nobunaga specially sent a lot of gold as compensation, which only added fuel to the fire. Oda Nobukiyo angrily scolded the envoy on the spot and said: "Can my brother's life be bought with gold?" Afterwards, the envoy was beaten violently and driven out of the city. After hearing the news, Oda Nobunaga was also furious and immediately withheld the compensation that was originally intended for the Ashigaru Inuyama Oda family who died in the battle. The relationship between the two fell to a freezing point.
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After the dust settled on these matters, Yu Qiupei's time with his wife and children came to an end. Naturally, Oda Nobunaga would not allow Yu Qiupei to be passive and slack in work in Qingzhou City, so he drove him back to his territory.
On August 5, when Yu Qiupei rushed back to the territory, the autumn harvest in the territory was already in full swing under the organization of Naoe Tadayei. Sena Uji, who had been responsible for the autumn harvest, was not here this time. Hanamaru and the others had already He moved the blacksmith shop from Seiju Castle to the castle town of Kuroda Castle and began to repair the captured armor and weapons. This time, Sena Ujiyoshi personally led Ogawa Yutō's platoon to escort the armor and weapons to Ise for trading.
This autumn harvest is also the first time that Yu Qiupei's personal income tax system has been implemented in a new territory, so Yu Qiupei pays more attention to it. The acting officials brought by the Sena clan from the Imagawa family are all experts in taxation. Under their organization, the personal income tax system has been better implemented. On September 3, the autumn harvest came to an end. However, this year's harvest in the Nongwei area was not particularly good, so the personal income tax system collected less tax than in the past. , only 3700 stone grain.
Just when Yu Qiupei felt sorry for this, Sena Shiyoshi, who had just returned from Ise, discovered a huge business opportunity.
"Red leaves! The entire Noo area has a bad harvest this year." Sena Uji said excitedly, "And Nishi Mino! Almost suffered a big harvest failure!"
This year's food production in Simino is only about one-third of previous years. This is due to bad weather this year and two locust plagues. At the same time, the Oda family's invasion of Simino in the summer was also devastating. A lot of fields were destroyed. Floods caused by heavy rains in the Nagara River and the Ibi River also destroyed a lot of nearby farmland. Natural and man-made disasters and various unfavorable factors broke out together. The bad harvest put Simeon on the verge of famine. Although the lord still had some There was a surplus of grain, but the people no longer had enough food for the winter.
However, it is said that Saito Ryuuki was in a very bad mood because he cut his finger while practicing swordsmanship. When he was asked by the lords of Simeron for tax reduction and relief, he recalled the treatment of him by several wealthy families of Simeron. This made him even more angry. So he stubbornly refused all requests and refused to listen to anyone's suggestions - this made the wealthy Simeon family completely disappointed in Saito Ryuuki.
Then the famine came, and the price of food naturally skyrocketed. Omi, which is also a production area, would not miss such a good opportunity. Many large grain merchants in Omi were already ready to take action. However, the wealthy families of Simeron, who also suffered heavy losses due to the poor harvest, set up
In exchange for the high tariffs, they planned to pluck the hair from the grain merchants to make up for their losses. The grain merchants in Omi were certainly not fools. Since the wealthy Simeon family had such an attitude, they were not in a hurry to sell grain.
If the consumption continues, Simeron will eventually be unable to hold on due to the advent of famine and reduce tariffs.
"This is our good opportunity!" Sena Uji said excitedly: "We already have the 10,000 koku of grain that we captured before, plus the grain from this autumn harvest, we can take it all to Western America.
Sell! We can even use the cash we have to go to Minami-Owari, where the harvest is abundant, to buy grain and then transport it back! Let’s go to Simeon together to resell!”
"We don't have to pay tariffs anyway! Don't worry at all!" Sena Uji said, already dancing, as if he had seen mountains of gold and silver waving to him.
"Is it such a big deal?" Yu Qiuping felt that this was a large-scale speculation, "Are you really okay?"
"Don't worry, Momiji," Sena Shiyoshi smiled excitedly, "I'm the best at dealing with money!"
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Even though Sena's righteousness was hard-pressed, the conservative and cautious Yu Qiuping still only agreed to use two-thirds of his family property to carry out "grain speculation". However, Yu Qiuping soon regretted his timidity.
The Sena clan Yoshitsune contacted the four wealthy families who had contracts with the Yuqiu family, saying that the Yuqiu family's caravan was about to cross the border, hoping that they would cooperate. These four wealthy families all had tricks in Yuqiu Ping's hands, so they naturally did not dare to stop them.
Tariffs. At the same time, because Yu Qiuping helped them clean up the Hibino family before, giving them the opportunity to regain their lost territory, they were still grateful to Yu Qiuping. In addition, Yu Qiuping had promised them before that the profits from the trade would be divided among them.
. Therefore, these four wealthy families consciously became the traitors of Simeon, and actively cooperated with the Yuqiu family's capitalist grain to attack the market of Simeon.
With the help of the Kawanami clan and the civilians sent by the wealthy people of Simino, Sena Uji successfully transported 10,000 koku of grain to Simino and started putting it on the market. Sena Uji, who was very economically minded, did not
Instead of selling all the grain at once, only a small portion is sold every day to whet the appetite of the market and prevent grain prices from falling due to oversupply. Normally, one stone of rice can only be sold for four in a grain-producing area like Meinong.
It cost about one hundred and fifty coins, but now it can be sold for more than nine hundred coins, which is almost the same. After ten days of continuous sales, Sena Shiyi has nearly doubled his assets.
He originally wanted to carry out the second step of his plan - transport the cash back to Owari, exchange it for grain and sell it back to Mino. However, the Saito family, Nishi Mino trio and other wealthy families seemed to have noticed Se
The caravan of Sena Uji is selling grain, and it seems that it has not paid customs duties through the Saito family and the wealthy families. Although Sena Uji is selling food under the banner of a "Mitsubishi" caravan and other small caravans (Ame Qiupei
(given his name), but he was still worried that his Yuqiu family background would be found out and his assets would be confiscated, so he had to end the reselling operation.
However, before leaving, Sena Uji also bought a large amount of relatively cheap lime, sulfur, crystal, Mino paper and other Mino specialties on the market, and he could sell these at a good price when he brought them back to Owari.
From this trip alone, Sena Shiyi earned nearly 5,000 yuan for Yu Qiuping. This is not counting the profits from the sale of Mino specialties. It can really be said to be a huge profit. The money at home
Everyone admired the Sena family. They never expected that this iron rooster was actually very good at doing business! Most of the benefits that were originally going to be distributed to the four wealthy families of Mino were used by them to pay off their debts. However, just this amount, let
They made 2,000 yuan - it seems that paying off Yu Qiuping's debt is not so far-fetched.
With so much sufficient capital, Yu Qiuping was confidently preparing to build the bank he had dreamed of. In the castle town of Kuroda Castle, dozens of corvees had already begun building large buildings as banks.
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After these things were over, Yu Qiuping went to find Honda Tadakatsu. The latter was teaching Ryuko martial arts, and the little girl learned every move well.
"Nanosuke," Yu Qiuping looked at Honda Tadakatsu who was still growing up and taller, and couldn't help but feel a little relieved. "The battle is over, and I have settled down. This time you fight against the enemy general, immediately
You have done a great job, and you have not dishonored your father's reputation. His Highness Matsudaira sent me a letter, saying that you are welcome to return. Have you considered when to return to the Matsudaira family?"
Honda Tadakatsu was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Yu Qiuping to suddenly bring up such a topic. He frowned, glanced at Ryuko who was practicing basic skills in an orderly manner, and shook his head hesitantly.
"I promised Miss Ryuko to teach her martial arts," Honda Tadakatsu said in a low voice, "I'm sorry to give up halfway."
"Is that so?" Yu Qiuping asked, "Then when do you plan to go back? Do I still need to give an answer to His Highness Songping?"
Honda Tadakatsu looked at Ryuko's posture, thought for a moment, and whispered: "The year after next, I will teach you all the basic skills that should be taught at the beginning of the year after next."