Chapter 1648: False reporting of projects becomes a silverfish
Sanada Nobunaga became more and more confused as she listened. Umino Riichi next to her asked.
"Master Qinghai thinks there is going to be trouble in the Wu Family Principle Promotion Association?"
Miyoshi Qinghai sighed.
"The fire cooks the oil, and the flowers bloom.
Who hasn't had smooth sailing times? But in this life, people will eventually fall into pits. Some people can get up, and some people can never get up again.
The prestige of the saint is at its peak, and the Shiba family is popular in the world. But privately, it is not just the Wu family's moral promotion association that has a problem.
If Shiba wants to conquer the world, he still has to fall into at least one big pit in Kanto, and this big pit is the opportunity for the Lord to achieve the goal of the Sanada family, a descendant of the gods.
The cause of unifying the world is not going to be smooth sailing. I and other Sibo retainers should guard against arrogance and impetuosity, concentrate on doing their own things, and wait for the opportunity to come.
If you are eager for quick success at the wrong time, you will only get twice the result with half the effort, or even lose all the results.
One hundred thousand stones in Nishi Ueno is already the limit that the saint can tolerate the Sanada people, and it is also the limit that other powerful warriors will not be hostile to us.
Once we cross this line, we will be troublemakers in the eyes of the saints, and opponents in the eyes of other martial arts who covet the blood of the gods.
Lord, even if you have the will to go against the current, what do you think your chances of winning are now?"
Sanada Nobushige had been convinced by Miyoshi Seikai in his heart, but he was still tough on his words.
"Although I am not sure of success, I am determined to become a benevolent person."
Miyoshi Sekai couldn't help but smile. The purity of mind of this Lord was much more interesting than the nonsense in-fighting in the Kinki Miyoshi family.
"Successful success aside, the Nobutsada Obata in front of you is a hurdle you can't overcome.
In the eyes of outsiders, the West Ueno One Hundred Thousand Stones is your territory, my lord, but you should know very well that you cannot control the entire West Ueno."
Sanada Nobushige remained silent, unable to refute.
The land of Nishi Ueno is geographically divided into two cores: north and south. Minawa Castle in the north has been occupied by Sanada Nobushige, but Kunmine Castle in the south is the territory of Obata Nobuzada.
Sanada Nobushige was actually an intruder to the samurai group in Nishi Ueno's native hometown.
She is called the Lord of Nishi Ueno, and the Sanada clan is actually centered on the Shino clan of the Koshino Mountains.
Sanada Nobushige was able to capture the Nishi Ueno territory by taking advantage of the internal conflicts of the Nishi Ueno samurai family, taking advantage of the death of Nagano Yamasa, and teaming up with the local boss Nobusada Oba to counterattack.
Therefore, although Sanada Nobushige occupies Minawa Castle, most of the samurai families in Nishi Ueno south of Minawa Castle are dissatisfied with her.
It was Miyoshi Seikai who found these two treasures, dried matsutake mushrooms and kapok trees, and allowed Sanada Nobushige to bribe the Nishi Ueno samurai family with huge financial benefits, and he became the unworthy master of Nishi Ueno.
In the previous Shiba-Oda War, Sanada Nobushige also spent great efforts to recruit a large number of members of the Shino clan from the Koshin Mountains to form an army, and there were only a few participants from the Nishi Ueno samurai group.
Seeing that Sanada Nobushige was silent, Miyoshi Kiyomi opened his mouth to persuade him.
"My lord, if the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them.
Sanada's reputation as the best soldier in the world has already started in this year's Shiba-Oda War. We should not be in the limelight again in next year's Eastern Conquest.
With this year's military achievements, everyone from saints to warriors have already assumed that you have secured your position as the Lord of Western Ueno.
Instead of going out to compete with others for territory, we should manage the Nishi Ueno land with peace of mind and first take over these disobedient local samurai families for our own use.
As the saying goes, a thousand birds in the forest is worse than a bird in the hand. If you stare outside, you will only be hated by others, but if you keep your eyes on your own territory, you are a responsible person who can make others feel at ease.
Kobata Nobuzada has taken so many benefits from us over the years, but she has always been aloof and refused to completely surrender to you.
Don't worry about the crusade against the people of the East. Just spend two years in peace, allowing the Sanada people to recuperate and tidy up Kobata Shinsada at the same time.
As long as Kobata Nobusada is captured, those Nishi-Ueno samurai who follow her lead will definitely surrender in awe, and all the 100,000 stones in Nishi-Ueno will belong to you, my lord, isn't it a good thing?"
Sanada Nobushige sighed.
"Everyone is gearing up to carve off a piece of flesh from the people of the East, but I want to stay in the ravines of Nishi Ueno and play some boring infighting with Nobusada Obata.
Master Ching Hai, you have been going around in circles for a long time, trying to persuade me to stop using weapons and to rest and recuperate.
But after all, you still haven’t told me why you rejected the deal from the Wu Jiayi Promotion Association? Why did you shut out the good intentions of Dazang Changan? "
On the side, Umino Riichi felt comfortable listening, and she had been trying to persuade Sanada Nobushige to stay calm, but this frizzy wild monkey in the mountains just didn't listen to her advice.
At this time, Miyoshi Kiyomi, the logistics manager, came forward to financially block the source of Sanada Nobuhige's sudden advance. It was really amazing.
As the art of war goes, food and grass go first before the soldiers and horses are moved. In other words, there is no money to fight a fart war! Sanada Nobushige is stubborn again, as long as she is not given military expenses, she will have to live in humiliation!
This is a good method, much more effective than trying to reason with the mountain monkey.
But Umino Riichi also heard it. Miyoshi Seikai's admonition was not only aimed at Sanada Nobushige's impetuous and aggressive strategy, but also his lack of confidence in the Samurai Giri Promotion Association.
So Umino Riichi asked.
"Master Ching Hai, your Majesty and I are both from the mountains. We are good at fighting and are not afraid of sacrifice, but we don't know much about management.
The master is a master of management, and I am ashamed of myself, but I have a doubt in my heart. You categorically said that you hope that the Lord will spend two years to convince Kobata Nobusada and rectify Nishi Ueno.
Does this mean that in two years’ time, there will be a big problem for the Wu Family Ethics Promotion Association? Does it also mean that the Lord hopes that the opportunity to give birth to a divine descendant for the saint will be in two years’ time?”
Sanada Nobunaga was initially confused when he heard Miyoshi Kiyomi's advice. At this time, Umino Toshi revealed the key points one by one, and Sanada Nobunaga suddenly cheered up.
In two years, I will have the opportunity to grass saint? Holy shit! Really?
Seeing Sanada Nobuhige staring at him with shining eyes, Miyoshi Seikai couldn't help but smile bitterly. This Lord's thoughts were so easy to understand that he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
Miyoshi Sekai looked at Umino Riichi and said politely.
"Uminohime is so humble. You have never been exposed to business transactions or matters related to territory management before. Now that you have devoted yourself to studying, your knowledge is no longer what you used to be.
There is indeed a problem with the Wu Family Ethics Promotion Association, and it is a big problem."
Miyoshi Kiyomi nodded to Miyoshi Izo who was standing aside. Miyoshi Izo took out a stack of documents and handed them to Umino Riichi.
Just when Umino Riichi wanted to share some with Sanada Nobushige, the Lord actually shrank back and shook his head with lingering fear.
Sanada Nobushige had a headache when he saw these documents. He had been invited by Miyoshi Seikai to receive business education for a few days, and he almost went crazy.
When Umino Ri saw Sanada Nobushige's cowardly appearance, he couldn't help but sigh, this wild monkey would never be able to make it to the big stage in his life.
There are many things that you cannot just listen to the people below. Even if the master doesn't know how to do them, he should at least be able to tell the good from the bad.
Sanada Nobushige stayed away from these documents and usually relied on Umino Riichi. But Umino Riichi was worried about what Sanada Nobushige would do if he was no longer there one day.
In desperation, Umino Rikachi had to take good care of himself. In order for Sanada Nobunaga's family business to prosper, he must live a long life.
Umino Riichi was flipping through the paperwork while listening to Miyoshi Seumi's explanation.
Sanhao Qinghai said solemnly.
"These documents are the loan plan planned by the Wu Family Ethics Promotion Association.
I am not familiar with other new development plans. However, the first batch of development projects in the lower Tone River have been running for three years, and I have participated in investing funds, so I am familiar with them.
Musashi Province on the lower reaches of the Tone River has a stone height of 670,000 stone. Due to years of disrepair due to water conservancy, the current output is only about 400,000 to 500,000 stone.
According to the plan, after water conservancy restoration and the Tone River diversion project, local grain production will increase to at least 800,000 koku.
Based on this, the Wu Family Ethics Promotion Association is preparing to issue a ten-year loan project.
Based on the annual investment of 300,000 shi, we will issue loans with a total value of 1.5 million shi to monasteries, martial arts families, merchants and other various types of people, and the people can participate with gold, silver, copper, grain and other materials."
Umino Li nodded and said.
"Due to various water conservancy construction projects, the stone height of Musashi Province has increased from four to five hundred thousand stone to more than 800,000 stone. This is the most conservative calculation, and the actual output may reach one million stone.
Through ten years of borrowing, the local Wu family has obtained funds for water conservancy projects, and the borrowed earthwork can also obtain loan interest. This is a win-win situation, and there seems to be no problem."
Miyoshi Qinghai sneered.
"The practitioners of the Wu Family Ethics Promotion Association are all veterans, and the plans they made seem to have no problems.
The invested Tucang is proficient in business operations, and the local martial arts family knows how to build the territory, but neither party has comprehensive talents who are proficient in business and know how to manage the territory.
That’s why I didn’t see the problem.”
Umino Riichi took a breath of air, looked at it carefully again, and shook his head helplessly.
"I can't figure it out, so I'd like to ask Master Ching Hai for some guidance."
Miyoshi Sekai was a prince of the Miyoshi family and the manager of Sakai Port. How could the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association fool her eyes with these little tricks? She snorted coldly.
“Most of the money and materials used for water conservancy construction are provided by local communities, and it doesn’t cost much. What really needs to be spent is labor.
The citizens of the territory brought their own dry food and were obliged to serve for free for sixty days a year. During the rest of the time, labor was required and rations were required.
A strong woman's ration is two dan for a year. For heavy physical work, extra meals must be added to avoid sudden death due to lack of physical strength. At least one dan should be added. The elderly, weak, husband and children also need 70% of the ration of a strong woman.
Within a year, after the busy farming and winter cold, the time that can be utilized for water conservancy construction is about 160 days.
Excluding sixty days of labor, that is, one hundred days of food needs to be supplied. The rations that need to be supplied are about one person and one stone.
With an investment of 300,000 koku a year, at least 200,000 people must be recruited to participate in water conservancy construction. In just a hundred villages downstream of the Tone River, how can there be so many idle people who do nothing else?
Moreover, this year, due to the crusade from the East, each family still needs to obey the call, and a large number of strong women and civilians have to be included in logistics support and transportation of military supplies, and there is no excess manpower available in the local area."
Umino Riichi frowned.
"Master Qinghai means that the Wu Family Principle Promotion Association's plan falsely reported expenditures and borrowed a lot of money and food that could not be used?
But why is this? Why do they do this? You need to pay interest on the extra money you borrow, and this is a loss-making business."
Miyoshi Qinghai nodded.
"I'm only talking about the Edogawa River downstream of the Tone River. The plan of the Samurai Giri Promotion Association also includes new plans for the Shinagawa, Watarase River, and Kinugawa rivers.
Borrowing gold, silver, copper and grain worth two million shi every year, and the total ten-year plan is more than 20 million shi!
The loan from the Wujia Yili Promotion Association is a charitable loan led by the saint, and the interest is only five cents."
Umino Ri's scalp went numb when he heard it, and Sanada Nobushige, who didn't understand, couldn't help shouting.
"Twenty million stones? Damn it!"
Miyoshi Qinghai sneered.
"The sixty-six countries in the world have a total stone height of no more than 20 million.
These guys from the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association actually want to borrow the world's annual harvest of food within ten years. They are simply crazy!
During the hundreds of years of war in Guanbazhou, martial arts families, monasteries, and merchants all saved their money and grain, and had nowhere to go to make money.
Now that they have the reputation of a saint, they are willing to spend money to support the water conservancy project in Guanbazhou and support the development and construction of Guanbazhou.
And the interest rate is extremely low, only 5 cents a year. If you borrow 100,000 yuan, the interest rate is only 5,000 yuan. With such a low interest rate, you can easily make back money by doing some extra money privately.
Those bastards from the Wu Family Principle Promotion Association, they are using the reputation of the saint to make profits for themselves, regardless of the saint's grace!"
Loans in ancient times are no better than modern finance. In nine cases and thirteen cases, they are all conscience loans. In modern society, that would be a 40% usury rate.
Five percent interest was a free loan in ancient times. In the troubled times, people hid their money in the ground and were unwilling to take it out, which is why there were such ultra-low interest rates.
And everyone who is willing to accept this low interest rate is actually using the credit of Sibo Yin as collateral, because everyone believes that the saint can unify the world and believes that the saint is doing charity, so they accept it.
Those people in the Wu Family Principle Promotion Association obviously want to take advantage of this low interest rate difference. Thinking that the charity established by the saint with compassion has now behaved like this, it really makes Miyoshi Qinghai heartbroken.
Sanada Nobushige said angrily.
"I want to make this clear to the saint immediately!"
Before she finished speaking, Umino Riichi, Miyoshi Qinghai, and Miyoshi Isan spoke at the same time.