When Yu Qiuhei applied for a budget to the Congress this time, the businessmen were very happy. This time, the Oda family's crisis and the Miyo family's aggressiveness made them feel a sense of crisis and they dared not restrain themselves from Yu Qiu's budget.
Since they obtained legislative power, a series of laws that are conducive to trade were promulgated, and the Yuqiu family also established large trading markets and stations and official roads in many places that facilitate business and travel. These merchants even began to invest in and build factories with the encouragement of Yuqiuping, hoping to establish large factories like the Military Industry Department of Lanxiang Huadi to produce some military weapons, or to establish some larger textile factories, timber factories, salt farms, porcelain factories, iron smelting plants, shipyards, etc. Setting up their own factories to produce things is definitely much more profitable than simply running trade. Under the rule of the martial arts family, warriors were not happy to see merchants open factories with such a big fanfare.
With the smooth trade routes, tariff reduction and investment in setting up factories, the profits they earned over the past year are almost as high as the profits of the past three years. In order to protect the Yuqiu family, they even passed a new tax bill, which would add a temporary tax to merchants every quarter to ensure the Yuqiu family's arms budget.
However, this harmonious honeymoon period in Yuqiu's family did not last long because of the arrival of a group of people - the members of the House of Lords who have been forgotten for a long time.
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When Yuqihei took back the territory of the four small families, namely the Kato family, Kato family, Kawanet and Nonomura, each family was granted the qualification of a House of Lords, and they had the right to approve the major policies of the House of Lords. However, since Yuqihei went to Kinki shortly afterwards and never returned to Ono, many important decisions such as the convening of Parliament and the court did not discuss with these members. When Yuqihei was transferred to Hanoi, they stayed in the original territory. Naoe Tadaehei was worried that he had insufficient prestige and returned the jurisdiction of the territory to them. They almost returned to their past status and gradually forgot their identity as a member of the House of Lords.
However, since Yu Qiuhei was taken back in Ono's territory, they were also panicked in an instant. They had originally signed a ten-year territory lease agreement with Yu Qiuhei, and they had the right to take back these territories ten years later. However, these territories have been taken back by Oda Nobunaga, and they had nothing to do with Yu Qiuhei, so their agreement became a waste of time. So, they immediately rushed to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle before the large army of Naoe Tadae who was responsible for the relocation set off, and asked Yu Qiuhei to set aside tens of thousands of stones from the territory of Hanoi as their new territory.
When this news came, the parliament immediately became a furious. Although the Yuqiu family's decree, which was the decree formulated by their parliament, could theoretically govern the territory of the small tyrants, it actually only took effect in the territory directly under Yuqiuping. The small tyrants in Beihanoi still maintained high tariffs, and set up checkpoints in the territory were layer by layer, which was very unfriendly to merchants. Most of the residents in the territory were self-sufficient and did not integrate into the economy.
Such a territory occupied almost half of the Yuqiu family's territory, which severely restricted the market of these Sakaimachi merchants. They produced a lot of goods in Sakaimachi factories and urgently needed to be sold, but the higher tariffs in the territory of these little tyrants gave them a headache. What made them even more dissatisfied was that these little tyrants of the Kitano family often prohibited the population from being privately migrated. Because the Yuqiu family was recruiting a large number of soldiers, there were not many young and middle-aged men left, so the labor required for the merchants' factories was always very short of labor. The consequence of the shortage of labor is the increase in employment costs. The shrewd Kinki people saw that the merchants could not recruit people, so they demanded higher wages, which made the merchants miserable. They really hoped to divide the territory of those little tyrants under Yuqiuping's management, so that the laws enacted by their parliament could govern there, so as to open up the market and obtain a large number of people as cheap labor.
However, behind these Hanoi little tyrants is the support of Takamasa Katsuyama, who is the Supreme Justice. Whenever merchants try to extend their hands to the territory of Takamasa Katsuyama will be warned by Takamasa Katsuyama on the grounds of "unconstitution" and "unauthorized interference in the family affairs of Takamasa Katsuyama".
Originally, nearly half of Yu Qiuping's territory was the territory of the small wealthy clans. The four new Weinong tribes had to share tens of thousands of stones. How could these merchants sit idly by? Can't they do their business? The factory can't recruit people? Seeing that Yu Qiuping was always a good reputation of "doing what he said", he actually planned to agree to the request of the original Lai Fang and others and give them 32,000 stones of territory for them, the merchants of the Congress suddenly became anxious. Often, they were always warned by the court, and actually came to the court to sue the four small wealthy clans, claiming that the contract they signed with Yu Qiuping was illegal.
In the constitution formulated not long ago, there was no provision on the legality of the contract signed by Yu Qiuping in the past, and Takamasa Katsuyama didn't know how to make a judgment for a while. This case suddenly became the focus, and Yu Qiu's house became lively in an instant.
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Keito Amano seized the opportunity and let his crows spread rumors in the territory. On the one hand, it said that Takamasato Kazumasa and the little tyrants in Kitano planned to reject the unreasonable request of the Congress and also required legislation to ensure that the territory of the small tyrants of the small tyrants of Imai was not disturbed. On the other hand, it claimed that the merchants in the Congress planned to act in one go and deprive the territory of the four small tyrants of Ono and the rich tyrants of the Tetano family. The rumor attack on the crows successfully added fuel to the fire. The already irreconcilable merchants and the rich tyrants of the parliament, who were already in conflict, were almost fighting, and even the little tyrants hired ninjas to assassinate the leaders of the Congress Sohisaku Imai and Sohikata Tsuda - this was discovered and defeated by the crows in time.
Yu Qiuhei did not support Amano Keido in causing internal strife when the enemy was in the face of the great enemy, but the troops of the Sanhao family had returned to their territory due to the autumn harvest, giving Yu Qiuhei the opportunity to sit in and watch the struggle between the Congress and the court, so Yu Qiuhei naturally would not stop it.
The merchants and courts of the Congress, and the young wealthy families attacked each other and revealed all kinds of black materials. They were different from outsiders like Yu Qiuping. They were both born and raised in Kinki and were very familiar with each other. The scandals had already spread thousands of miles. In order to argue which of the two sides' opinions happened, the young wealthy families also sent wise retainers to start a fierce debate with the merchants in the court and the parliament hall. For a moment, there was a shadow of the political scene in the future.
However, the debate was just a flash in the pan. The merchants and the little tyrants immediately began to use their own abilities to find ways to make things difficult for each other. The merchants cut off the supplies of the little tyrants, and the little tyrants mobilized the people to attack and intercept the caravans. However, in the struggle, the merchants were obviously better. Their material blockade suddenly made the territory of the little tyrants stretched out, and some farmers in some tyrants even launched Ikki as a protest. The attacks on the caravans by the little tyrants were also repelled by the ninjas hired by the Congress at high prices. These wealthy congressmen even spent a lot of money to buy the opposition forces in the family of the little tyrants, and cooperated with the local Ikki to try to overthrow the rule of the little tyrants' governors. Takamasa Katsuyama immediately announced that this practice was illegal, demanding that the merchants stop immediately and investigate and deal with the masterminds who plotted against the rebellion.
Seeing this, Yu Qiuping could no longer sit idly by, so he sent Chang Panbei's troops to intervene in coordination and ordered the two sides to stop fighting and sit at the negotiating table.
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During negotiations, neither the merchants nor the little wealthy clan were willing to make concessions easily. The Congress insisted that the territorial market of the little wealthy clans should be opened and that such high tariffs could be set up, and that the little wealthy clans could be allowed to act freely. The little wealthy clans were very uneasy about the domineering businessmen. They not only supported the four wealthy clans of Ono to obtain territory, but also wanted the House of Lords, composed of the Ono family, to truly use his power to approve important decisions of the Yuqiu family to supervise the parliament. However, due to the advantages gained in the previous struggle, the merchants of the parliament had more confidence, and the retainers of the little wealthy clan could not say that the eloquent businessmen were. The Congress even threatened the budget and asked the Yuqiu family to send troops to take over the territory of the little wealthy clans. Under such heavy pressure, the alliance of the rich gradually fell into decline.
In such a situation, both sides of the Confrontation turned their attention to Yuqiu's family, hoping that Yuqiu's family would make a fair ruling. Yuqiu's family finally came up with a solution after discussing with Naoe Tadaehiro, Sena's Yoshino, Amano Keito, Masayuki Sanada and Shigeji Takenaka for a long time.
Due to the closure of the territory of the small wealthy family, it did hinder the development of the business within the Yuqiu family, and also made Yuqiuping very unsmoothly in the management of the territory, and the recruitment source was also restricted. Therefore, Yuqiuping and the Congress decided unanimously to sign a lease agreement with all the small wealthy families of Beihanoi, renting their territory for five years, and taking over the tax rights, judicial rights and management rights of the territory to the Yuqiu family.
As compensation, all the small tyrants can obtain a quota of members of the House of Lords, and together with Ono's family, they form the House of Lords. In contrast, the existing merchant parliament was renamed the House of Commons, and the two Houses were called Parliament. The authority of the House of Lords also changed accordingly. It was no longer a review of the decisions of the Yuqiu family, but a review of the legislation of the House of Commons and amendments to the law. The power of the Yuqiu family to review the legislation of the House of Commons was transferred to the House of Lords. If the legislation of the House of Commons and the amendments to the law were not passed by the House of Lords, it must be sent back to the retrial - and in the next vote, a two-thirds majority must be passed before the bill will be passed again. However, when the House of Commons passes the same bill again, the House of Lords has no right to reject it again.
The reason why the parliament was changed to the House of Commons was to satisfy the vanity of these little tyrants as warriors. They naturally could not bear to be on par with the merchants, so they set them as superiors and merchants as subordinates. However, anyone with discerning eyes understood that the power of the House of Commons was even greater.
The House of Commons immediately voted to pass the "Territory Lease Law" and handed it over to the court for review. The little tyrants strongly resisted such a bill at the beginning because it obviously harmed more than good for the little tyrants - how can a seat in the House of Lords be compared with a real territory? Depriving the little tyrants of the territory also violated the shogunate laws and regulations in Takamasa Katsuyama's mind. Yu Qiuhei naturally could not completely ignore their feelings, because he adopted the method of appreciating reason and moving emotions.
He promised the governor of the little tyrants to transfer the debts they owed to Yuqiu's family and allocated one tenth of their territory's income each year to them as salary. All the warriors and retainers in the territory were kept to them and allowed to continue to serve as administrative officials. Yuqiuping also temporarily retained their troops and did not annex them.
Originally, the family governors of these little wealthy families lived a tight life all year round, and they might even have to owe debts. Now Yu Qiuping not only cleared his debts, but also gave them a considerable amount of money, enough to live a rich family. The warriors and retainers in the territory were also settled, so they didn't have to worry much. These little wealthy families also knew in their hearts that if Yu Qiuping and the merchants united to fight them, they would be able to fight. Since that's the case, it would be better to accept this pretty good condition and rent the territory decently. Anyway, the territory was not lost, but it was just rented out, and the land deed was still in their own hands. Moreover, the military power was still in their own hands, so there was no need to worry about being slaughtered.
Since the little wealthy families themselves were willing, the always fair Takamasa Katsuyama, naturally would not hinder the bill for his own selfish interests (the little wealthy family is an important force supporting him) and would be passed happily. The new political system of the Yuqiu family was officially established. Under the organization of Tadhihei Naoe and Takamasa Katsuyama, the acting officials and judges entered the territory of the little wealthy family and began to deal with tax and legal affairs. The merchants could finally abolish the tariffs in the territory of the little wealthy family and recruit workers from them.
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In this political storm, although the little wealthy families lost control of their territory, their military power was still in their hands and they were able to maintain a high economic and political status decently and at the same time, much better than those turbulent ronin in the turbulent times when the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. The merchants also made a lot of profits, but the biggest winner was the Yuqiu family. They not only took all their territory directly, but also moved the House of Lords, which originally restricted their decisions, to the merchants. All of this was thanks to the crows of Amano Keito secretly provoking internal struggles between the merchants and the little wealthy families, and the Yuqiu family was able to benefit from the fisherman.
After everything came to an end, Yu Qiuping finally breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the political system that he had changed beyond recognition, he couldn't tell whether it was like a parliamentary system, a presidential system or something else.
"Just make do with it." He comforted himself, "Maybe my attempt will become a textbook in the future college class."
Chapter completed!