On January 24, after receiving Yu Qiuyou as a hostage, the businessmen of Sakai Town and Ishiyama Town immediately began their activities. They had been waiting for this moment for too long. Every businessman who knew the inside story understood that
What a huge business opportunity will be in front of them. This is not just a huge deal, but it is very possible to earn wealth that is unparalleled in the country, and even become a businessman like Lu Buwei.
During the confrontation between Yu Qiuping and Miyoshi's family, the informed businessmen in Sakai Town and Ishiyama Town were even more concerned about the outcome of this battle than Yu Qiuping and Miyoshi Yixian. If Yu Qiuping lost, then what he had promised before
All power will be in vain. They took great risks, spent a lot of money to hire ninjas, and sent back frontline intelligence every day in order to understand all trends as soon as possible.
However, when the news came one after another that Yu Qiuping won a great victory, Miyoshi Yoshihide was captured, and Yu Qiuping gained control of Sakai Town during negotiations with the Miyoshi family, the merchants were not as happy as expected. Because
Yu Qiuping is now at the peak of his power. Even if he breaks the contract, the merchants of Sakai Town and Ishiyama Town have nothing to do with him. In order to ensure that Yu Qiuping fulfills his previous promise, the merchants unanimously decided to terminate the supply of grain and grass to Yu Qiuping and force Yu Qiuping to offer his son as a sacrifice.
hostage.
After the supply of grain and grass was terminated, the merchants were even more nervous than when Yu Qiuping and the Miyoshi family were dueling. Rumors had already spread in Maple Leaf Mountain City that the hardliners headed by Amano Keitoku were urging Yu Qiuping to directly enter Sakai Town and settle the matter once and for all.
The merchants in Sakai Town were frightened by the news and hurriedly prepared to spend money to hire mercenaries such as Zagazhong, Genlaizhong and others to come to help in the battle.
However, all this tension stopped with the arrival of the carriage carrying Yu Qiuyou. Yu Qiupei sent two of his legitimate sons as hostages in one go, and also ordered the two platoons of Fukushima Yasunari and Omaezaki Nakahide not to approach Sakai
Town, this is enough to show sincerity. The relieved businessmen could no longer bear it, and immediately disclosed the agreement between Yu Qiuping and them, and auctioned the seats in the Congress to all Kinki businessmen.
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As soon as the news came out, the entire Kinki and even the whole world were shocked. The daimyo of each family immediately sent their envoys to find out whether the news was true. The samurai and allies of the Oda family, and even Ashikaga Yoshiteru also went to Oda Nobu.
Chang Yuqiuping asked to verify whether all this was true. After receiving a positive answer, warriors, merchants, palace ministers, warriors, and even civilians all over the world started discussing this matter even more intensely.
It's just a matter of transferring the power of the family to the samurai of the maternal family, but actually giving the legislative power and the power of approving the budget to businessmen in exchange for support. This is definitely a shocking move. Miyoshi Yoshihide was even more shocked after learning the news.
After an enlightenment, I finally understood why the businessmen of Sakai Town left the Miyoshi family and supported Yu Qiuping.
Yu Qiuping had never expected that the world's repercussions would be so violent, and he was secretly lucky. Fortunately, he had reported it to Oda Nobunaga before, otherwise if this matter was exposed, Oda Nobunaga would definitely question him.
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This is why Oda Nobunaga, a new and new human being, would agree with his subordinates to do such nonsense - any traditional Japanese samurai would probably be very angry at Ame Qiupei's deviant behavior and order him to commit seppuku immediately.
However, even Oda Nobunaga seemed unlikely to accept such a system. He sent an envoy to ask Yu Qiupei to take back power from the businessmen as soon as possible after stabilizing the situation. Although Yu Qiupei promised Oda Nobunaga,
, but I didn’t think so in my heart.
After experiencing a brief period of consternation, Kinki businessmen immediately realized the huge opportunity before them. This is the power of legislation! Annual taxes, tariffs, transaction taxes, traffic, markets,
All laws related to the life of merchants are enacted by this Congress! If you can squeeze in, I don’t know how many benefits it will bring. You can formulate laws that are beneficial to your own merchants to expand the caravan, and encourage trade to open up the road.
, and can even use this to formulate laws to suppress competitors! With the status of a member of Congress and the huge power that comes with it, many people will have to ask themselves to do things in the future.
They repeatedly confirmed that this Congress has the ability to challenge Yu Qiuping - with Yu Qiuyou as a hostage; the Yu Qiu family's treasury will also be controlled in Sakai Town, and if you want to use money, you must get the permission of the Congress; if Yu Qiuping really wants to come
Hard, at worst, he would take this money and switch to Sanhao, leaving Yu Qiuping with no money to live with.
After the reconfirmation was completed, the remaining businessmen from Sakai Town, Ishiyama Town, and Kinki immediately went to Sakai Town in person or by sending their close associates, bringing huge amounts of cash with them to prepare to bid for the 100 parliamentary seats. In addition to businessmen from the Kinki area, there were even many Shikoku
, businessmen from China, Hokuriku, and Onono areas also flocked in. However, Yu Qiuping did not dare to be so ostentatious. He politely rejected the foreign businessmen and only allowed businessmen from Sakai Town, Ishiyama Town and his territory to participate in the bidding. This
Although others complained, it gained firm support from merchants in Sakai Town, Ishiyama Town, Kawachi, and Izumi.
The bidding started in full swing immediately, which opened Yu Qiuping's eyes to the financial resources of the merchants. The starting price of 5,000 yuan was neither too much nor too little, but the merchants who could offer this price for the auction were enough
There are hundreds of people. In the rich Kinki, there must be many people with a net worth of more than 5,000 kiwan. But it is really surprising that there are so many people who can take out 5,000 kiwan out of thin air to participate in high-end gambling. The auction prices are getting higher and higher.
, had already gone straight to 7,000 yuan, Imai Munehisa and others felt that something was not good. Wouldn't this kind of bidding play into Yu Qiupei's wish? Although the money in the national treasury can only be used with the permission of Congress, but that is still the case.
The Yuqiu family's money is no longer the merchant's own money, and it is not a problem to waste it like this. Imai Munehisa originally wanted to secretly bribe those small businessmen to stop raising prices. But the one Yu Qiuping sent to supervise was the iron man.
The ruthless crow judge Amano Keitoku immediately confiscated the money Imai Munehisa used to pay bribes and warned Imai Munehisa not to do it again.
In desperation, Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Muneki and others united a large number of wealthy businessmen with the largest business and held a meeting. After reaching a consensus, they summoned all the businessmen who came to bid and explained their plans.
In this auction, everyone should stop bidding maliciously. The bidding price cannot exceed 6,000 guan. Those who are willing to put up 6,000 guan will enter the next round of negotiations. Among this group of people, except for Imai Munehisa, 6 people have been officially designated as owners.
In addition to those who have the quota, the 94 parliamentary quotas will be selected by drawing lots. The remaining people do not need to worry. Imai Munehisa promised to stipulate in the constitution that will be formulated later that the term of parliament members is five years. Five years later, those original seats will be
94 people will give up their seats and draw lots again for the person who did not win.
Although there are still many wealthy businessmen who are dissatisfied with this, 6 people including Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Muneki and others united with a large number of small businessmen who could not afford to continue bidding to put pressure on them and forced them to accept this condition.
.After drawing lots under the supervision of Amano Keitoku, a 100-member Congress was elected, and the Yuqiu family also received a treasury of 600,000 guan. The first meeting of the Congress was held in a large house donated by Imai Sohisa——
Later, it was converted into the Congress Hall. The first thing the Congress did after it was elected was to fulfill its promise and enact the first law in the constitution-the term of office of members is five years.
And immediately, Yu Qiuping sent the Sena family
As a representative, Yi applied to Congress for two budgets. The first budget was for the maintenance costs of Maple Leaf Mountain City - all the previous building materials were used to repair houses for the people, so that Maple Leaf Mountain City was still partially intact after it was burned down.
Looks like. The second budget is the Yu Qiu family's military budget for the first half of the year. It includes training expenses, food expenses, ordnance production expenses, as well as a temporary budget for Yu Qiuping to do things cheaply. Together, these two budgets,
It was nearly 200,000 gu. When Sena Uji reported, his voice was shaking - he had never spent money so lavishly in his life.
People are in high spirits when happy events happen. These businessmen have just obtained the coveted power, so naturally they have a great impression on the Yuqiu family. In addition, they and the Yuqiu family are grasshoppers on the same rope. If the Yuqiu family is defeated by the Sanhao family,
, the power of their Congress was in vain. How could they give up the power they had spent so much effort to earn so easily? Therefore, for the budget Yu Qiuping applied for for the first time, Congress immediately voted 98:2
The vote passed. When Sena Shiyoshi returned to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle with 200,000 gu of money and goods in a carriage, he immediately fell unconscious due to excessive excitement, and it took him a long time to regain his consciousness.
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Immediately after this, the Constituent Assembly of the National Assembly was convened. Amano Keitoku presented them with the Civil Code that the Yuqiu family had previously formulated in the territory as a reference for basic laws. The members of the National Assembly basically followed the provisions of the Civil Code.
The law has not changed much about the powers of agents, judges, civilians, etc. As for the respective powers of the Yu Qiu family, Congress and the court, they basically follow the rules left by Yu Qiuping last year.
However, when the legislation came to the aspects related to businessmen, businessmen encountered difficulties. If possible, they would like to cancel all taxes on businessmen and not write them into the law. But if there are no taxes, it will be difficult for them to do so.
The Qiu family's treasury will be unable to make ends meet. If the Yuqiu family does not have enough funds, they will not be able to maintain the army, and no one will be able to protect their power. After repeated discussions and weighing for many days, at the suggestion of Imai Munehisa, Congress passed the law
All tariffs in the Yuqiu family's territory have been abolished in order to facilitate free trade. However, the tariffs in and out of the Yuqiu family's territory and neighboring countries have remained the same. The transaction taxes on goods have even been slightly increased.
After several days of discussions, Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Muneki and others gradually established their authority in the Diet, and had a faint tendency to become business leaders. However, they still faced a lot of challenges. Sueyoshi from Ishiyama Town
Sonshiro and others seemed to be trying to formulate a tax law for Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Mune and these wealthy Sakai merchants who owned a lot of property - to levy property taxes. This made Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Mune and these wealthy people panic and had no choice but to
Don't rush to win over other small businessmen and ask them not to vote for Sueyoshi Sonshiro's proposal.
In Congress, no matter how rich you are, one seat is one vote. If Sonshiro Sueyoshi proposes a tax clause targeting wealthy businessmen with huge wealth, many small businessmen may flock to vote for it.
Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Mune and others had money but couldn't spend it - because Amano Keitoku explicitly prohibited bribery.
However, Imai Munehisa and Tsuda Muneki quickly figured out a way. In the current Congress, businessmen from Sakai Town account for about forty seats, and businessmen from Ishiyama Town and other places each account for more than twenty. Imai
Munehisa and Tsuda Muneji spread the word that if Sueyoshi Sonshiro insisted on proposing the clause for wealthy merchants, they would join forces with merchants from Sakai Town and other places to formulate a tax collection law for Ishiyama Town. This would put Sueyoshi from Ishiyama Town
Sonshiro was so frightened that he immediately became silent.