What Tokugawa Ieyasu wants to do now is actually no different from Xiangjiang's choice, but the ancient and modern expressions are different.
In essence, both are trying to make themselves the best economic exchange portal and enhance their own value.
As the most important ally of the Oda family, the Tokugawa family has no obstacles to economic ties between the two parties.
The Mikawa Tokoku Ryogoku area where the Tokugawa territory is located is the core area of the Tokaido trade route, and it is the kind of road that must be passed around the capital.
Once the Shiba family reopened the Tokaido trade route, Tokugawa finance, which was transformed from Suba's food stamps, would inevitably be deeply involved in the economic activities of the Tokaido trade route.
The Oda retainers could completely transfer their wealth through the Tokugawa family channel.
Because the Tokugawa territory fully used food stamps, the efficiency of property transfer by Oda retainers would be quite high. When entering the Tokugawa territory, the wealth exchange had actually been completed.
Regardless of whether it is gold, silver, copper coins or grain, as long as it is exchanged for Spo's food stamps, it is essentially within the economic jurisdiction of the Spo family.
The Tokaido Trading Route was the best logistics route in Kanto and Kansai. However, due to the years of war caused by the collapse of the Imagawa family, the Hokuriku Expressway took away its dominance in logistics.
If the Shiba family could really achieve even things, the Hokurikudo trade route would not be able to compete with the Tokaido trade route. They are endowed with unique geographical advantages and the gap in logistics costs is too great to even be able to defeat them.
The trade activity in the Tokugawa territory will also become very active with the revival of the Tokaido trade route, which can completely cover up the economic behavior of Oda retainers transferring wealth.
Even if Oda Nobunaga knew about these things, it would be difficult to grasp the clues, because these are just pure business behaviors.
First, the Shiba-Oda family is in the honeymoon period and cannot fall out over trivial matters such as money and food.
Furthermore, although the status of Tokugawa Ieyasu's allies is not as good as before, they are independent allies after all.
Unless Oda Nobunaga broke out and forced Tokugawa Ieyasu to immediately become a subordinate force, she would not be able to reach out to the business of Tokugawa territory.
Tokugawa Ieyasu wanted to maintain the independent status of the Tokugawa family by leveraging a series of unique economic statuses such as the transfer of Shiba grain stamps, the reopening of the Tokaido Road, and the transfer of property of Oda retainers.
As long as the Oda family continues to be militaristic, and as long as the Shiba family is still willing to absorb the wealth of the Oda family, the economy between the two parties will be closed, and direct exchange channels cannot be established without obstacles.
Because Oda Nobunaga could not allow the wealth he had worked so hard to bring home to flow out indefinitely.
However, the cooperation between the Shiba and Oda families, and even the merger of Shiba and Oda that Oda Nobunaga had in mind, could not avoid economic cooperation.
Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu's unique political status allowed her to become the entry and exit channel for the economic activities of the Shiba and Oda families, possessing her own new value and bargaining chip, and maintaining her own independence.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's idea was not complicated. Under the patient explanation of the house governor, the Tokugawa retainers present gradually became convinced, but there was one exception, and that was Ishikawa Sumasa.
Ishikawa's face was calm, but the more he listened, the more uncomfortable he felt.
The Tokugawa family wanted to use their political status as Oda's allies to fully support the Shiba family economically and get the best of both worlds. This idea was good, but it also had pros and cons.
Just like Xiangjiang played both sides between China and the United States, using the eagle yuan to reflect China's economy, it ate up all the policy benefits during the period of friendship between China and the United States.
However, this special economic status is based on the friendship between China and the US Eagle. As long as there is a problem with either the US Eagle currency or the Chinese economy, Hong Kong will be in turmoil.
To put it simply, if both are good, Xiangjiang will be good. As long as one of the two is bad, Xiangjiang will be bad.
In the same way, Tokugawa Ieyasu's tricks must be based on the friendship between the Saba and Oda families. If both the Sba and Oda families are good, the Tokugawa family can follow suit.