"Why is this?" After all, Xiang Zong and his subordinate Qin Tai are ancient people and have no understanding of the series of novel things spawned by the mercantilist system brought by Yu Qiuping that spans the ages.
"This is for the purpose of repaying the loan to the Chosune family." Sena Shiyoshi naturally would not expose the merchants' thoughts. "According to our investigation, with Tosa's agricultural tax, it is possible to repay this military loan."
It would take a long time. So the bosses of the Diet came up with this idea. They would set up workshops and factories in Tosa and recruit local people to work during the off-farm and other free time. The factory would pay them wages, and the Nagasogabe family could start from
Take taxes out of your salary and use those taxes to repay the debt."
"Is there such a good thing?" Xiang Zong's subordinate Qin Tai secretly admired in his heart. Apparently he did not realize that these agreements would bring huge profits and business opportunities to businessmen, but he still considered them from the classical warrior thinking.
"Is that all?" Xiang Zong's subordinate, Qin Tai, finished reading these several agreements and found that it was over. He raised his head in surprise and asked, "Are there no other requirements?"
"No, that's enough." Sena Shiyi looked at Yu Qiuping, and Yu Qiuping nodded.
"This..." Xiangzong's Qintai is a mature and experienced diplomat, and can hide his emotions well. But at this moment, he almost didn't take back his look like he was looking at a fool.
The Yuqiu family took out a loan to buy equipment for themselves, and then opened a workshop in their own place to create tax conditions for the Changzong family to repay the loan? Isn’t this a free income for the Changzong family? How can there be such a good thing in the world?
Xiangzong's subordinate hurriedly pulled out the equipment list, including all kinds of equipment, including spears, bows and arrows, and even iron cannons! Oh my god...
He signed this series of agreements with Yu Qiuping as if he was rushing to put out a fire, for fear that Yu Qiuping and the others would wake up and regret it. Yu Qiuping and the businessman and craftsman representatives sitting behind him tried hard to suppress the smiles at the corners of their mouths and looked at them expressionlessly.
Xiang Zong's minister, Qin Tai, signed and stamped every piece of paper.
He didn't know that this was equivalent to opening up Tosa Country to businessmen with zero tariffs. Compared with the huge profits and the vast market space, what were the meager taxes and loans of the Nagasogabe family?
However, Xiang Zong's Qin Tai was very worried about whether the Yu Qiu family's military industry department could finish producing the thousands of sets of equipment and countless weapons, ammunition, and arrows needed before the invasion of the Sanhao family. However, Yu Qiuping said
This is not a problem at all.
If it were the Military Industry Department in the past, it might have been quite difficult. However, the current Military Industry Department is still a behemoth. Because now, the Yuqiu family only holds 51% of the shares of the Military Industry Department, and the remaining shares have been bought by businessmen.
——Obviously no one wants to miss this most profitable arms deal.
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The cause of the matter was last year's large-scale production activities. Since the Hongye Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Sankaichi, resulting in a large equipment shortage, the Military Industry Department did not have enough raw materials for production. This had to be submitted to Congress
The new budget. However, Yu Qiuping happened to be abroad at that time, and Congress wanted to be tougher and took the opportunity to pass some bills to strengthen Congress.
However, Kaede Imagawa, who stayed in charge, did not accept this at all. Like Yu Qiuping, she also had the wisdom from the future. After weighing it repeatedly, she took a step that transcended the times - selling the military industry department to Mitsubishi
Merchant Group. Because the Mitsubishi Merchant Group is actually the property of the Yuqiu family, the sale of the Military Industry Division to the Mitsubishi Merchant Group was just a name change in name, but in reality it was quite different.
In the past, Yu Qiuping's operating model was to apply for a budget from Congress, and use the approved budget to the Military Industry Department to produce ordnance. But now, the Military Industry Department works under the Mitsubishi Corporation. Mitsubishi Corporation can provide sufficient raw materials.
and employee salaries, to produce the ordnance first. The Yuqiu family first took out a loan to buy the ordnance, and then asked Congress to approve a budget to repay the loan. This created
It became an established fact that ordnance production had been completed, and Congress had no choice but to compromise.
But this time, there were too many ordnances to be produced, and the Military Industry Department was bound to expand its recruitment. Raw materials and salaries were not a small amount. Therefore, Yu Qiuping decided to sell 49% of the shares of the Military Industry Department to
Businessmen. All shareholders holding more than 5% of the shares have the right to participate in the shareholders' meeting of the Military Industry Division's production, and will also enjoy the dividends from the Military Industry Division's profits. The Yuqiu family obtained the controlling stake of the Military Industry Division through Mitsubishi Caravan, and can still keep their word. And
Businessmen can also get a share of the huge profits of the Military Industry Department, and everyone is happy.
However, some people are still worried about whether selling the sophisticated equipment of the Military Industry Division to the Changsonggabu family will lead to the danger of breeding tigers. Therefore, under the planning of Amano Keitoku and others, the Military Industry Division, which has always been mainly engaged in production,
They started a processing business. They painted and repaired the old equipment, long guns, and iron cannons that had been eliminated by the Red Leaf Army, and sold them to the Changzong family as new ones. And the Military Industry Department produced brand-new and advanced ones themselves.
The equipment is provided to the Yuqiu Army. A trade-in activity for old items with new items is currently being carried out in the Red Leaf Army.
However, Xiang Zong's general Tai didn't know this. At this moment, he had already taken those contracts and ran back to Tosa excitedly to report to his brother the great progress made in the negotiations. And Yu Qiupei was fighting for Oda.
After Nobunaga approved of his clever move, he officially started the transaction with the Nagasune family.
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On April 10, the second year of Tensho (1574), in Tosa Kunioka Toyo Castle on Shikoku Island.
Nakamura Nakama is standing on the wall of Sannomaru, supervising the transportation team to transport a batch of equipment and ordnance into Okafyo City. This is the ninth batch this month. Like the previous eight batches, they all came from
It was brought by ship from Sakai Town at sea. They pretended to sail to the Kii Suido, but in fact they made a large circle far away from the surveillance of the Awaji Navy, landed at Tosa Bay, and continuously delivered the equipment produced by the Military Industry Division.
Came over.
Nakamura learned from the intermediary that after the Military Industry Department completed a huge equipment order, the idle skilled workers were temporarily rented out by the bosses under contracts. Therefore, this ninth batch of equipment was also the last batch to support Tosa Country.
——The number is definitely enough, nearly 7,000 people, enough to make the ratio of combat soldiers and auxiliaries of Tosa Kingdom's 10,000 army reach 2:1. When fighting on the mainland, this ratio is not a bad idea.
Nakamura Nakama is a senior veteran of Tokiwa Bei, and one of the more than two hundred slaves who followed Yu Qiuping all the way from Chirit City. Up to now, of those two hundred old brothers, there are no more than a hundred survivors. However, these people,
Basically, they have become the backbone of Yuqiu's family. Those who are still in the Hongye Army have basically achieved the rank of lieutenant and above, and are the core force of officers in the Hongye Army. And those who have retired due to injuries or old age,
Yu Qiuping will seek their opinions. Those who still want to stay in the military system will be engaged in training instructors, logistics, management and other positions; while those who want to retire will be assigned to the positions of acting officers and judges.
Now the core forces in these systems are also composed of those old brothers. The businessmen in the Congress call this force the "Imagawa Faction", and they regard it as a super powerful faction that is the most loyal and capable to Yu Qiuping.
.Although this name seems a bit bad, the old brothers are secretly proud to be members of the "Imagawa School".
Nakamura Nakama is a veteran who retired after the Battle of Sankkamachi. He is a little older than Fukushima Yasunari and is no longer suitable to serve as a mid-level officer. However, the group of veterans who retired with him are quite different.
A few people were sent to Tosa. However, their identity at this moment was not as officers of the Red Leaf Army, but as military advisers hired by the Congress bosses. Although Oda Nobunaga agreed to Uakihira's secret support for Nagaso Gabe Motochichi,
The Yuqiu family was resolutely not allowed to participate in the war. Therefore, Nakamura and the others had no choice but to enter Tosa with this euphemistic identity.
The Diet businessmen provided a high loan to the Chosogabe family. However, in order to get a return on this investment, the prerequisite is that the Chosogabe family must repel the Miyoshi family and defend Tosa. Therefore, the Diet businessmen are not interested in this battle.
They attached great importance to it and were worried that if Chosune and Motochina were defeated, all their money would be wasted. Therefore, parliamentary businessmen hired many veterans and asked them to enter Tosa with the fleet. On the one hand, they had to teach Chosune
How our army uses these equipment, on the other hand, it provides help to the command of Changzong's family.
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At the same time, Sakai Town.
Yu Qiuping was standing on the hill beside Sakai Town, looking down at the landscape of Sakai Town. When he first saw Sakai Town a few years ago, he was quite surprised by the prosperity of this port city. Now,
Sakai Town is even more different now. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most prosperous city in Japan. Outside the original town, a large circle of square factories were built, just like rows of factories.
Building blocks. There are workshops that produce daily necessities, textiles, furniture, porcelain, etc., densely packed around Sakai Town. And outside these factories, there are temporary residences for hired workers.
Compared with the neat and tidy factories, these temporary residences appear much shabby, appearing in the shape of disorganized gravel.
Many workers from Hanoi, Izumi and even Kinki live here. Many of them are refugees who were forced to leave their land due to war. For decades, Kinki has been raging with war, and the number of displaced refugees is tens of thousands. In recent years, they are
More and more people are attracted to the factories in Sakai Town. And some are the residents under the Yuqiu family. They will come here to work during the slack season and go home to farm during the busy season. Every time during the slack season and
During the busy farming season, the area around Sakai Town was like ants moving, with a huge flow of people. Imai Munehisa saw the business opportunities and established a large transportation company, using horse-drawn carriages, ox carts, donkey carts and other means of transportation to transport people.
labor.
This prosperous light industry all started with an unintentional suggestion made by Yu Qiuping a few years ago: The bosses have so much money, it is good to run trade all day long, but why not try to open more factories on their own? Yu Qiuping did not think of it at all at the time.
, his unintentional suggestion actually caused the number of factories in Sakai Town to increase several times in a few years. The bosses soon tasted the benefits of investing in and setting up factories, and the benefits it brought far exceeded pure trade. The bosses
The increase in their income has also enabled the Yuqiu family to receive a huge amount of tax revenue, which is enough to support the Yuqiu family's large-scale expenditures in recent years.
Yu Qiuping stared at the prosperous Sakai Town with some forgetfulness. It was the charm of industry. Although they were still some labor-intensive light industrial workshops, they only used the assembly line technology introduced by Yu Qiuping and did not have any of the machines of later generations. But
It still made Yu Qiuping see the vigorous vitality.
"Your Highness doesn't think those merchants are still docile hens, right? They stay in the henhouse and lay eggs for their master." Amano Jingde, who was standing behind Yu Qiuping, looked at Yu Qiuping's intoxicated appearance and woke up with a cold voice.
He said, "They are not chickens, but eagles, birds of prey. They only focus on profit, and will launch attacks at all costs. The reason why they dare not disobey His Highness is because the wings of the young eagles have not yet grown strong."
When their power takes shape, the Yuqiu family may become their pawns, why hasn't your Highness made preparations earlier?"
"How can it be that exaggerated?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and glanced at Amano Kagetoku in surprise. This was not because what Amano Kagetoku said was sensational, but because he accurately predicted the outcome of the development of things.
"The Congress has only been established for a few years, and it has already begun to require the military strength of the Yuqiu family to seek their interests. This time, it is only because His Highness's plan coincides with theirs that it will go so smoothly. Next time, if it is the merchant's plan
It goes against His Highness’s plan, so how should His Highness make a choice? Let the Yuqiu family become the thugs of merchants and conquer the country for their benefit?”
Chapter completed!