The short trip to Kyoto ended quickly, and Kira Yoshi returned to Sakamoto Castle quietly. The expansion work near Sakamoto Castle was finally completed at this time. The newly built Sakamoto Castle was expanded a lot, and the Sakamoto Port Town became the same.
Similar to the straight Sakai Town, the wide and flat avenues and the neatly arranged Sakai Towns at all levels all show that the founder of Sakamoto Castle had extraordinary courage and ambition.
All the craftsmen sent by Wang Dan have arrived and were arranged by Yamamoto Tokiyuki to be busy in various tasks. The Tsuda family has also transported the 150,000 taels of silver to Sakamoto and Kyoto. Some days ago, due to the urgent redemption of Kira Yoshi,
The purchase of silver caused the price of silver to rise sharply. After research and decision by Sakamoto Executive Office, Matsui Yuzhen took this opportunity to reverse the trend and invested huge amounts of silver into the market multiple times to buy Yongle money that had fallen to the bottom.
In fact, this is not too complicated. After Kira Yoshitoki's advice, they quickly mastered the most primitive method of combating speculation. They invested in silver in batches to buy Yongle money that was suppressed to extremely low prices. At that time, Kyoto and Sakamoto
The exchange rate is 1 guan of Yongle money for 2 taels of silver. Before that, 1 guan of Yongle money could be exchanged for 4 guan of Ju money. 1 Guan of Yongle money was equal to 1 tael of silver. This means that the value of Yongle money was artificially lowered.
Double, this was all caused by the turmoil caused by Kiragi's forced exchange of silver.
The group of merchants who hoarded rare silver made a fortune when the Kira family exchanged silver. They raised the price of silver so much that the Kira family's Yongle money had no place to use it. Even Matsui Tomokazu had to grit his teeth and accept the suppression of high-priced silver.
Now this group of businessmen are arbitrarily suppressing the price of Yongle money and looking for opportunities to seize market dominance in Kyoto and Sakamoto.
Now the Kira family began to invest in silver again. They all thought this was a desperate countermeasure, so they each used their Yongle money to buy silver. Then the Kira family continued to invest in silver, and they continued to eat.
I never realized that I had fallen into a huge trap.
On the first day, the Kira family invested 10,000 taels of silver, but it was sold out in less than half an hour. This gave the town residents the illusion that silver was very popular and Yongle money was not valuable. Then the next day, the Kira family invested 20,000 taels of silver.
, it was still sold out within an hour, and even the shadow of Sakamoto Zasho was found in the crowd. As expected, they still stood against the Kira family.
On the third day, the Kira family directly invested 30,000 taels of silver. This time, it took them an entire afternoon to get them all. The merchants already felt bad. The Kira family seemed to be pouring out endless silver. How could they?
They went to buy so much Yongle money, but they didn't want the money, so they had to grit their teeth and go to the money house to exchange Yongle money. In fact, the Yongle money they exchanged was all bought by the Kira family from them the day before. Even if they
Even though I know there are problems here, I can only grit my teeth and persevere.
The most dramatic thing is that on the fourth day, the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver. At that time, the group of businessmen were dumbfounded. Why did they still have so much silver?
No one was able to borrow money. The merchants in Sakai Town who used to come and go frequently closed their doors and thanked customers. They had no idea that these merchants had been warned by the Kira family and did not dare to lend them money. In the end, they could only hold the money in their hands.
Go to the money house to exchange for high-priced Yongle money with silver.
So on the fifth day, when the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver, everyone understood what was going on. They had been tricked! The person who tricked them was the Kira family, who manipulated the exchange rate markets in Kyoto and Sakamoto.
There is an official exchange ratio of 1 Guan Yongle money equal to 4 Guan Ju money equal to 4 taels of silver, but they have to use 1 Guan Yongle money to buy 3 taels of silver and eat like crazy. In the end, they run out of money and go to the money house with the silver.
, buying Yongle money at the price of 4 taels of silver for 1 tael of Yongle money... He was being tricked inside and out.
As a result, the Sakamoto Merchant Alliance in Kyoto collapsed silently. Smart businessmen came to Sakamoto Castle in person to apologize, sold the silver they had hoarded to the Kira family at the official price, cut off their stocks and announced their withdrawal from this losing game, and some people
After losing their minds or not recognizing the facts, they still exchanged money desperately to buy silver, hoping to fight to the death with the Kira family.
On the sixth day, the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver. All the merchants who tried to resist collapsed. They could no longer exchange money to buy the silver on the market. The price of silver was unstoppably suppressed to the official exchange rate of the money house. They
The advantage that is maintained with great effort is like a child's sand castle, which falls apart the moment the waves come.
Some people jumped directly into the Kamogawa River and committed suicide, while others hid in the courtyard of their homes and hanged themselves. In these few days of gaming, the assets of this group of people had shrunk to 30% of their original value, leaving only a pile of
Gaining nothing but high-priced silver, Kira Yoshitoki relied on this small exchange rate war to not only gain market control in Kyoto and Sakamoto, but also make a profit of 30,000 kan Eiraku money. So far, the status of the money house in the two cities
No one could shake him, and the merchants from both places gave up their resistance and kept their arrogant heads low.
After the bricklayers, carpenters, and blacksmiths from the Ming Dynasty arrived, they immediately brought good news to the Kira family. The first to make a major discovery was the bricklayer from the Ming Dynasty. In late March, this bricklayer general gave guidance on the matter.
There were too many caves, so a brick kiln was built under the hills at the northwest end of Sakamoto Castle Town.
In late April, the first new town was built at the northern end of Sakamoto Castle Town. The town is completely made of tall houses built with a mixture of bricks and wooden structures. This bricklayer has obviously lived in Kyushu for many years and speaks fluent Kyushu-accented Japanese.
, after considering the problem of frequent earthquakes, he changed to a masonry structure on the outer layer, and still maintained the traditional craftsmanship of wooden beams and tenon joints on the inside to build a new type of roof.
In comparison, carpenters and blacksmiths have much smaller areas of use. They mainly focus on the mutual exchange of carpentry and blacksmithing techniques. Japanese blacksmiths and carpenters still maintain the techniques of the Tang and Song Dynasties, while the techniques of the Ming Dynasty have become different from those of the previous ones.
The craftsmanship is completely different. After the exchanges, the two parties each found out their own experiences. The craftsmanship of the Tang and Song Dynasties was a rare opportunity for the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to pursue ancient methods. The new craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty was also a rare opportunity for the Japanese craftsmen.
Learning opportunities.
The level of doctors in the Ming Dynasty was relatively average. Probably because Wang Dan was afraid of learning advanced medical skills, he only sent a middle-aged doctor who was less than forty years old. However, it was not too much of a problem to let him take care of a few children.
Several craftsmen made it clear that they would only stay for half a year, not one more day. I can teach you what I can teach you, but don't try to hold them back.
Kira Yoshito readily agreed. What could be done by detaining a few craftsmen? He wanted these people purely to cover up the goldsmith. If they could learn the mother's money sanding method, there would be no problem for these people to return to Kitakyushu immediately.