A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Soon the official document from the imperial court came down. It was written in four parallel and six verses. It was such a beautiful article, and it was not written on paper, but on a piece of wood.

This thing is the legendary Gao Shen. I wrote a few words about Xiaopingtai's physical characteristics of being 1.4 meters tall, with a dark complexion and a slight beard, and then explained that Xiaopingtai had already served as a sixth-ranking official. With this wooden sign, he became a legitimate court certification official.

I shook this long piece of wood and saw that twenty guanwen was okay. This single word would probably be worth more than twenty guanwen in future generations. Even if it's not written on silk or paper, it probably won't be saved until later.

Looking at the old servant who brought Mu Pangzi over, Xiao Pingtai asked Aji to give the old servant a hundred dollars. But the old servant's old face shrank with joy, and his smile was like a chrysanthemum. As brilliant as you want.

Aji handed him the money, and he said with great gratitude, "Thank you for the Danzhengdian reward, thank you for the Danzhengdian reward." Xiao Pingtai waved his hand, "Go back and say hello to my grandfather and uncle for me."

As soon as the old servant left, the other Hatamoto samurai came over to see what was new. Passing the piece of wood around, everyone praised it as a sign of self-defense.

Although there are some Hatamoto samurai with a salary of fifty kan and one hundred kan per year, some of them are officers who have inherited their family's common names and are called so-and-so guard or so-and-so soldier guard. In fact, they are not recognized at all, but no one wants to expose them. There are also some who have made meritorious service on the battlefield, and the master will report it to the court in batches. It is worthless to send dozens of people indiscriminately at one time.

Only Xiao Pingtai was a formal official of the imperial court who had spent money to find a way to get married.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu came in from outside and saw a group of people playing lively, so he asked everyone what they were doing. Koheita then handed him the mochiko to look at. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu looked at it and saw that he had one himself. His father bought it for him through the shogunate four or five years ago.

So he asked his entourage to take out his piece of wood, and it was exactly the same, but he wrote on it that he was from the fifth position, Zuomasuke. Sure enough, people with big legs are different. Everyone expressed their envy when he could become an official at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

How could Yamauchi Yoshikatsu miss such an opportunity to win over people? He immediately promised that whoever served the public in the future would be an official for them.

Of course everyone had to cooperate with his performance and kneel down quickly to show their loyalty, saying that they would serve the public loyally and bravely and never forget the Yamauchi family's kindness.

Then time passed slowly, and everyone was doing nothing for a long time. It was already June. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Nagao Kagetora contacted each other several times, and finally finalized a mutually agreed covenant. Please help each other when traveling to and from Kanto in the future.

Compared with the happy cooperation with Yamauchi, the guest and the host enjoyed themselves. As for the shogunate, Nagao Kagetora was still unable to encourage the Duke to start a head-on war with Miyoshi, and finally returned home with some regret.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu discussed the alliance and met with Nagao Kagetora, and was no longer prepared to stay in Beijing, but Koheita's high-return financial management project has not yet been settled. Then he took Aji and continued to wander around the streets, hoping to find business opportunities.

Generally speaking, making money mainly starts with food, clothing, housing and transportation. Because these things will never be eliminated, and we are not afraid of losing money if they cannot be sold. In addition to finished cloth, there are three major raw materials for clothing, namely raw silk, ramie and kapok.

Raw silk is still in the stage of small-scale production, with uneven quality, and most of it is controlled by the lord. The Yamauchi family is also engaged in this business. Xiao Pingtai also plans to promote mulberry cultivation on the vacant land in the county in the future. After all, the profit from raw silk is not small. It never hurts to expand your financial resources.

Then there is green hemp, which is green hemp. The main producer and controller is Echigo's Nagao Kagetora. It imports Echizen Tsuruga and Wakasa Obama on a large scale through the trade route of the northern return ship, and then transfers it to Kyoto and passes through Kōkyō. Weaving or selling directly with the shops controlled by the temple. The profit in this area is not small. If you dare to intervene, Nagao Kagetora will probably kill you with a knife.

Finally, the price of kapok is very low and can be found almost everywhere, with very little profit. Unless we can reduce the cost of textiles and market them on a large scale at low prices. Only by taking the path of small profits but quick turnover can you make money.

As for food, I'll be honest, I can't even eat enough. Many of Japan's famous snacks and snacks in later generations have not yet been formed, or are only in embryonic form. When it comes to utensils, it includes gold and silverware, wood products and lacquerware, all of which are in the hands of large merchants.

If you want to live there, forget about real estate. If it works, it's horses and vehicles. Horses are military supplies. The horse service system is also for the control of horses. If you are not a powerful person or a big business group, you should not want to interfere.

For other weapons and equipment manufacturing, learning to make iron cannons is a way, and the profit is not small. The point is that it can strengthen the family's military strength, but craftsmen are difficult to dig. Swords and armors are also pretty good, but they don’t have good iron or famous craftsmanship, and the payback period is not short.

The rest are high-end handicrafts, various bamboo and wood joinery, and this material is not available everywhere. Then there is the porcelain industry, which is already established in Ejiri and is not considered. For the tortoise shell work, this requires tortoise shell (tortoiseshell), let’s discuss it later. As for tatami (tatami), it is a specialty of Mimasakutsuyama, so there is no need to compete for second-rate quality.

After thinking about it, there is really no industry that can make huge profits.

I also thought about the territorial properties around the Yamauchi family. The most profitable ones are naturally the gold mines. Whether it is Izu, Suruga, Echigo, Sado, Sagami, Musashi, Hida, or Shinano itself, all have large-scale gold mines. mine. As long as it can be mined, the gold dug out will be worth money immediately, but when you think about the big guys who occupy the gold mines, you don't dare to think about it. Finally, Hida's continuous lacquer industry comes into view.

Lacquer is a good thing and easy to cultivate. Up to 20,000 lacquer trees can be cultivated in one acre. After transplantation, about 100 lacquer trees can be planted in one acre. Lacquer can be harvested in five to eight years, from June to September every year. At first, about half a catty can be obtained from one lacquer tree. When the lacquer tree is more than ten years old and enters the peak production period, each tree can harvest one kilogram of raw lacquer in a year. It can be produced continuously for about thirty years, and the raw lacquer is worth more than a hundred yuan per kilogram.

The profit earned is more than ten times that of farming, which is very tempting. Moreover, the place of production is also close, so Heita Kohe decided to go to Hida to have a look after returning to Japan.

Then, they first bought all kinds of silk flowers, perfumes, hair masks, jewelry, clothing belts, and jewelry that the wives group needed. It was really like a shopping spree. The purchase was on the order of hundreds of dollars, and once again made the Yamauchi family stupid and rich. The rumors are true.

Xiao Pingtai could only spread his hands and blame me. I was forced to buy it by my wife's group. I didn't want to use it myself. I don't even have a wife, so how could I buy it blindly.