After an in-depth exchange with Lilu, Yiyin finally determined the shogunate's general policy on Nanman trade.
It is to open up to the outside world, expand the scale of Nanman trade in Sakai Port, add more fresh blood to the Hokuriku Dou trade route system, and offset the danger of indiscriminate issuance of Sika food stamps by making the cake bigger.
Although Yiyin has always been thinking about the final plan of opening up direct trade tomorrow, it now seems that Nanman Trade's plan is more realistic and effective, and can temporarily stabilize the Spo family's financial system.
Lifting Nanman trade restrictions and expanding the scale of foreign trade will naturally relax restrictions on Nanman religion.
As the patron saint of Buddhism, Bishamonten, it is impossible for Yoshigan to agree with Nanman teachings and betray his own Shinto roots.
However, once the Nanman trade was liberalized and a large number of Nanman people penetrated into the island country, it would be difficult for the island country's auditors to distinguish the identity of the missionaries.
A large number of missionaries will follow the Nanman merchants and infiltrate into the island country. The physical isolation of the Nanman faith will fail, and underground churches will spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
Yiyin didn't know what trouble this would cause, but he couldn't care about it for the time being.
If you want the benefits of Nanman trade, you must accept the disadvantages of Nanbar trade. Nothing is perfect in the world. The fundamental principle of political choice is that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Of course, Yiyin would not be the bad guy in person, but would use the political platform of the shogunate to promote Nanman trade reform.
Let the shogunate come forward and provide Lilu, the Nanman general agent, with political chips to use in business negotiations with Nanman merchants.
As for the anger of Buddhism, the shogunate used the excuse of resolutely opposing the entry of Nanman missionaries and only allowing Nanman merchants to do business.
In fact, just as Yoshigan thought, the shogunate was in such a bad state that it had no ability to distinguish the difference between Nanman missionaries and Nanman merchants, let alone the ability to restrict the activities of Nanman people in various places.
The weak shogunate opened a hole in the dike against the Nanman barbarians, and then the surging tide would soon breach the dike, making the shogunate's restrictions on the Nanman missionaries useless.
This is also a little sweetness given to the Nanman Church by Lord Yi Yin. Although he politically rejects the Nanman faith, the reality is that Nanman missionaries can finally go deep into the island country to preach.
I believe that the Southern Barbarian Church will also assess the situation, gladly accept the goodwill of the shogunate, hide among the Western and Portuguese caravans, and enter the island country to preach.
As long as the Southern Barbarian Church supports it, the biggest obstacle to expanding Southern Barbarian trade will be lifted, and then it will be business negotiation that Lilu is best at.
Lilu will expose the old foundations of the Westerners and the Portuguese, force them to make concessions, and let the Hokurikudo trade route system headed by the Shiba family eat the richest piece of meat in the southern barbarian trade.
After all, no matter what kind of trade you are in, you cannot do without water and sea transportation logistics. The cost and risk of land transportation are much higher than those of water and sea transportation.
As long as the Shiba family still controls the mature logistics system of the Hokurikudo trade route, no business activities can bypass cooperation with the Shiba family.
While Yoshigan completed its trade layout with the Nanbarbarians, the Shogunate Group and the Ashikaga Hui clan were also slowly getting along, gradually forming a new political balance in Kyoto, which made Yoshigan breathe a sigh of relief.
It's funny to say that the shogunate group that controls Kyoto is actually more afraid of public opinion than the punishment of laws and regulations.
What they fear is not the turbulent public opinion under the public opinion, but the fear that the public opinion will destroy the illusion of harmony they have weaved, allowing the saints above to see the truth.
The shogunate wrote so many laws and regulations, all of which were good laws that served the samurai family wholeheartedly. In the end, no one was afraid of the majesty of the law. The only thing they were afraid of was public opinion exposing the truth.
This joke is really not funny at all. What is wrong with this martial arts society? The Emperor’s New Clothes is really a fairy tale that will never go out of style.
As a higher ruler, Yiyin is actually blind and deaf. He can only rely on the lower-level warriors and mobilize the lower-level warriors to uncover more hidden dangers and try to change some injustices.
The shogunate group does not dare to be angry or speak out, but they will definitely try their best to slander behind the scenes and regard this change in Kyoto as a political catastrophe.
Those with vested interests will never understand the feelings of the victims. They will only destroy the foundation of the entire Wu family group without hesitation for the sake of the petty profit in front of them.
And Yiyin is just a selfish feudal theocratic ruler. He will not continue to do it for ten or eight years, making the vested interests complain and he will be cursed forever.
A ruler who is selfless and dedicated must not be a normal person. Yiyin cannot imagine what on earth does such a person want?
Yiyin is just an ordinary person. Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he hopes that his descendants can rule this island country and enjoy wealth and wealth forever.
As long as this political goal can be achieved, he does not care whether the future of the islanders is bright or bleak.
If the weak and ignorant people can allow the descendants of Sibo to stand at the top of the island country's pyramid forever, Yiyin will not hesitate to turn the island country into a closed society that will always be ignorant.
After all, he has never regarded himself as an island citizen in his heart. When considering the future of the island country, he only cares about the happiness of his own family.
What’s interesting is that the island people of this era don’t have the sentiments of family, country, and world. They are also selfish and only care about the future of their own family.
Therefore, Yiyin can join forces with the admirers of the Wu Family Group to build its own divine power and raise the meaning of noble blood to the sky.
If it were placed in the Chinese dynasty, it would be difficult to imagine that those elites who claim that princes, generals, ministers, and ministers should be concerned about everything in the family and the world would wholeheartedly align themselves with Yiyin and engage in decadent theocracy.
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The cold wind of winter was getting more and more biting, and Yiyin, who had completed the trade layout of Nanman and the political arrangements of Kyoto, knew that it was time to set off.
Things can never be done, and if they continue to be delayed, they will be delayed until the beginning of spring. It would be more convenient to take a boat directly back to Kanto via the Hokuriku Road trade route.
However, Yoshigan was opposed to taking the Hokuriku Expressway from the bottom of his heart, and still wanted to go back to Kanto via the Tokaido Expressway.
The birth of Uesugi Miyuki gave him a feeling of intimidation. It wasn't that he didn't like his daughter, but he was too entangled in Echigo's political interests and had lingering fears.
The Echigo Kingdom was the starting point for Yoshigan's conquest of Kanto. The Echigo duopoly formed by him and Uesugi Kenshin is still the most important political cornerstone of the Shiba family's foothold in Kanto.
Even the Kanto Shrine, a political platform that was growing rapidly, was actually built on the basis of Echigo's dual politics.
Without the strong support of the brave and wealthy Echigo samurai group, Yiyin would not have a solid platform to move in and out of Kanhachishu.
But on the other hand, because Echigo's dual politics was too important, the birth of Uesugi Miyuki, the second daughter, was far more complicated and difficult to deal with than the eldest daughter Takeda Yoshinobu and the third daughter Yuigahama Dango.
Because this daughter has a high starting point, Uesugi Kenshin and the Echigo samurai group behind her must be eager for this daughter to inherit everything from the Shiba family, but Yoshigan is not willing.
The Wu Family Group is also moving towards political maturity step by step.
From the Kamakura shogunate period, when each heir received an equal share of the territory, to the Ashikaga shogunate, where the family governor inherited everything, the samurai family's inheritance method became more and more zero-sum.
To put it simply, each heir can get something from his mother. No matter how much, he will eventually have partial inheritance rights.
But now, only the house governor eats alone, and other branch families either share the leftovers with the house governor as a dog, or they don't have any at all.
Inheriting one family will help the Wu family maintain their family business and will not slowly lose strength due to the division of territory.
But on the other hand, because the family governor ate alone, all the children desperately wanted to become the family governor, and the struggle to inherit the family business became very fierce.
This is a zero-sum game, where the winner takes everything and the loser gets nothing.
The third generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu took advantage of the benefits of this era, using the heirs of each family to compete for inheritance rights, dividing and weakening him, and becoming the only powerful shogun in the Ashikaga shogunate.
Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. The prosperity of the Ashikaga family stems from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's balancing act, but the decline of the Ashikaga family is also due to this.
During the Yatsushiro Shogun Rebellion, the Yamana family and the Hosokawa family also started fighting for succession, and enlisted the Ashikaga shogun they supported to start a war.
That battle greatly weakened the strength of the shogunate's high-ranking sect, and destroyed most of the shogunate's prestige and control over the local area.
For the shogunate as a whole, the final political result was that there was no winner, and all the shogunate warriors were losers.
This is the disadvantage of the inheritance of the family governor, because it is so good to eat alone, and everyone wants to grab the chair of eating alone, resulting in a very fierce battle for inheritance rights, with almost no lower limit.
Yiyin was worried.
The divine family that he is building will eventually become so powerful that the divine power will lead to the various divine families fighting each other in order to grab the chair after his death, leaving him unable to rest in peace in heaven.
Yiyin already had some vague ideas in his mind. He wanted to remove his chair.
In fact, based on the tradition of the samurai family, as early as the imperial family system of the Kamakura shogunate, there was a political tradition of joint governance by the nobles.
It was just that Minamoto no Yoritomo had only a few heirs at that time, and the exercise of power relied on the various Hime warrior groups under his command, making it impossible to establish a strong bloodline co-governance system.
But Yi Gin is different. Yoshi Gin is a man. He does not need to give birth by himself. He only needs to work hard to sow seeds, and he can turn the powerful leaders of the Hime Warriors into the mothers of his children.
What he needs to consider is how to use the child's mother so that the heirs can get used to the political form of aristocratic discussion. Everyone can discuss matters together and jointly safeguard the supreme rule of the God descendants group.
At this time, Yoshigami was holding Takeda Yoshinobu, and sitting next to him was the ecstatic Kosaka Masanobu.
"Really? Saint, do you want His Highness to go back to visit His Highness Takeda?"
Yiyin nodded, touched the child's little head and said.
"It has been two years since Yixin left his mother. He left home when he was three years old, and now he can hardly remember his mother's appearance. This is not good for the child's growth.
I will set off soon from Tokaido to Kanto to take care of things. Yoshinobu should go back with me. Takeda Shingen probably wants a child too."
Of course, Kosaka Masanobu knew that Takeda Shingen missed his children day and night, and every letter he received was full of affection.
But the problem is that the Takeda family failed to go to Luo, and Takeda Shingen had no choice but to use Takeda Yoshinobu's child as a hostage to provoke the Shiba-Oda War. As a mother, she bears the original sin.
Despite everyone's propaganda that Yoshigan went to war with Oda Nobunaga for the sake of the Takeda family, in fact everyone knew in their hearts that the real trigger was His Highness Takeda.
If Takeda Shingen provokes a war involving 200,000 people that took a year of preparation, and can easily take his daughter back home, he will really treat everyone as a fool.
Takeda Yoshinobu was by Yoshigan's side, allowing the Shiba family to control the Takeda family's heirs. This was a political balance point. Takeda Shingen had no right to interfere with the child's future, or even see the child.
This is the political price Takeda Shingen has to pay, and she herself can only accept it painfully.
Yoshigan's generosity at this time made Kosaka Masanobu overjoyed and unbelievable. Her hesitation was also expected by Yoshigan.
If Yoshigami was an ordinary samurai daimyo, he would have to carefully place Takeda Yoshinobu in order to avoid big trouble in the future for the sake of family inheritance.
But Yoshigin's current identity is Bishamonten, he is the living god.
His child is a god, and he is planning to improve the structure of theocratic rule, from a single person at the top to a new political structure in which a group of gods join forces to maintain theocratic rule.
The Takeda family is no longer the target of suppression by the Shiba family, but a part of the Shiba theocracy, and needs to contribute its own strength to the maintenance of the theocracy.
Takeda Shingen is so bad that he has sores on his head and pus on the soles of his feet. Yoshigan needs such a powerful villain to help her. For the future of her children, she must wholeheartedly safeguard Shiba's divine power.
Takeda Shingen is planning to participate in the crusade against the people of the East, and will go out to attack the Satake family of Hitachi Kuni in the name of Takeda Yoshinobu, a child.
She wanted to occupy the magpie's nest, and in the name of Takeda Yoshinobu, the Yoshinobu bloodline, take over the guardianship of the Satake family of the same clan in the Hitachi Kingdom, and expand the Takeda family's territory.
At this juncture, Yoshigan took the initiative to let Takeda Yoshinobu go back to visit relatives, which politically can be seen as a kind of encouragement and encouragement.
Kosaka Masanobu was inevitably confused as to what the saint was trying to do. But Yoshigami knew very well that what he wanted was the prosperity of divine power.
Showing selfishness and being biased is just to prove to everyone that this guy Shiba Yiyin is a god who is willing to agree to anything for the sake of his children, with a soft ear and a strong pillow.
Uesugi Kenshin's strength is too strong, so he will recruit a few more divine descendants to share the Uesugi family's influence in Kanto and create an artificial balance.
The principle of Yiyin is that of a loving father. If any of you cry, I will be soft-hearted. You can expand as hard as you want. Anyway, in the end, it will be your own children's property, and the meat will always rot in the pot.
But the upper-level relations must be united, and he must find a way to make the gods form a united front, unite with the outside world, and use a better profit distribution plan to make internal fighting meaningless.
As for the future, Yiyin already has some ideas in his mind, and the joint...emperor elector...xujunshi will discuss...
He smiled at Kosaka Masanobu.
"I rode a horse on the Tokaido Road, and my child was too young to follow me on the bumpy ride. Besides, along the way, I always had to stop and meet local celebrities.
Let’s do this, you take Yoshinobu to Ise Country first, and then return to Suruga Country by sea, which is safe and fast.”
With Yoshigan's current influence, he said hello in advance and sent a team of Shiba Tongxinzhong to take care of him. They passed through the Oda family's territory and sent the children back to visit relatives by sea. No one dared to think wrong.
When Kosaka Masanobu saw Yoshigan say this, he naturally believed that he sincerely wanted his child to go back to visit his mother, and was extremely surprised.
"Thank you, Saint. I will write to Her Majesty Takeda and ask her to send someone to Suruga Country to assist you."
Yiyin nodded and pinched the child's little face.
"Yixin, are you happy that you can go back to see your mother?"