Chapter 1909 Changing the economic background of the island country
You must know that Takada Haruno ran to Sakai Port with nothing, built the Hokurikudo trade route, established the Shiba food stamp system, and became the powerful boss at the core of the Shiba family.
Although Takada Haruno is now disgraced by the financial crisis, her qualifications and affection are strong enough. If she rashly touches someone else's cake, will she be retaliated against in the future and die an ugly death?
But since the saint has shown him the information about Sakai Port, it means that the saint is very dissatisfied with the problem of Sakai Port, and this is giving him a chance to show off.
Do you want to show off? Of course you have to show off!
Dazang Changan's eyes twitched, his pupils dilated, and he breathed heavily.
She claimed to be talented, but because she came from a family of monkey musicians in Yamato, she was scorned by the Iga Maeda retainers and was squeezed out of her career, so she had no chance to display her talents.
It was Maeda's mother and daughter who recognized talents and gave her the opportunity to come to Kanto to serve as the saint's attendant, which led to the glory of her establishment of the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association.
But now, the accompanying minister of Dazang Chang'an has been forced to leave his job and is guilty of the crime.
If she really went back to the Iga Maeda family in despair, even if the Maeda mother and daughter still valued her, how could those Maeda retainers who once rejected her give her a good look?
A grown-up woman cannot eat five pots of food in life, and she will be cooked in five pots of food even if she dies!
A sharp light burst out from Dazang Changan's eyes. She needed this opportunity. Even if there was a fire pit in front of her, she would jump down without hesitation.
In this Wu family society where classes are clearly defined and hierarchy is orderly, one's origin almost determines a person's upper limit, and the opportunities to break through the ceiling are very few.
Dazang Changan finally got an opportunity, but she resigned sadly. If she didn't seize the second chance given by the saint, she might not get a third chance in her life.
With no way out, how could she not seize this last chance?
In just a few breaths, Dazang Changan had already thought it through. He held his head high and spoke about his views on the Sakai Port Rebellion, trying his best to express himself in front of the saint.
"I believe that the problem at Sakai Port is not serious."
Yiyin looked at her deeply.
"Oh? Tell me."
Dazang Changan bowed slightly and said.
"There is a cloud in the sky. The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers.
Since the Yatsudai Shogun Rebellion, the world has been in chaos for hundreds of years. To this day, the Kinki samurai family all know that the shogunate relies entirely on the support of saints. Only when saints are in charge of the world can the shogunate be in order.
Since there is a saint in charge of the shogunate, why worry about a little disorder in Sakai Port."
What Dazang Changan said was vague, but the meaning behind the words has been exposed.
Since ancient times, agriculture, industry and commerce, the sage has brought the Kinki samurai family home. With the handle of the sword in his hand, why do we need to worry about the business chaos in Sakai Port?
In the final analysis, political power relies on violent institutions to maintain power. How can the founding monarch, with military power in his hands, overturn a group of businessmen? Impossible.
This is like a country with ten aircraft carriers crisscrossing the world. Its military expenditure is higher than that of all the countries in the world combined. So what if it defaults on its debt? Come and hit me if you are not convinced!
Yiyin narrowed his eyes.
The flattery of Dazang Changan was well shot, and it seemed to hit the point, but it was useless.
Doesn't Yoshihiro himself know that he is strong in force and that the issue of Sakai Port cannot shake his own power? Do you still need you, Dazo Changan, to talk about this matter?
If we just rely on violence, the matter will naturally be solved, but the food stamp system will inevitably collapse, so the key to the problem is how to continue to maintain the credibility and operation of the food stamp system.
Food stamps are a good thing. The Spo family can exchange a few pieces of papyrus for real money in the hands of others and tie them to their chariot.
Yiyin is reluctant to throw away such a useful financial tool.
The economy of the Shiba family relies heavily on the financial function of the food stamp system. The Shiba-Oda War relied on the powerful financing channels of food stamps to siphon a large amount of resources and forcibly used money and food to stun Oda Nobunaga.
Once the food stamp system is abandoned, the Shiba family will still be invincible even though Yiyin himself is there to control the situation, but the Shiba family's economic system will degenerate into the traditional samurai economy.
What is the traditional economic model of the Wu family? It is a poor person who relies on the sky for a living, saves the land tax, and cannot accumulate much capital in a year.
The economy is the foundation of finance, and finance is the regulator of political power.
In the farming era, land was the most important means of production. Whoever controlled the land would have stable financial income.
But on this barren volcanic island, the plains that are good for farming are criss-crossed and divided into countless fragments by mountains formed by volcanic eruptions.
Even the Kanto Plain, which has the largest cultivated land area, is only a small territory in the eyes of the entire island nation and does not have the overwhelming economic advantage to comprehensively suppress other regions.
In other words, the geography of the island country is inherently insufficient and it is impossible to form a central government like the Chinese Empire. Even if it learns from the Chinese system, it cannot replicate the Chinese success.
The vast North China Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain were connected together, forming an overwhelming economic advantage that could radiate throughout East Asia and become the strongest centralized dynasty in the agricultural era.
And what about the island country? It has a fart!
The Kanto Plain cannot suppress the whole country, and the other scattered small plains have no hope of dominating the entire island.
The final result is that it is easy for local forces in island countries to govern themselves behind closed doors, and the central control is weak, and they easily fall into groups fighting for hegemony and civil strife.
In front of Yiyin, there are three ways now.
First, continue to follow the traditional path of the Wu family and use their own force to suppress local areas.
Then after his death, the Shiba family declined, and other forces rose up to challenge the Shiba family again, entering a new cycle of the rise and fall of the samurai family.
Second, after conquering the world, he tried his best to weaken and suppress other forces.
Through political means such as one country, one city, and going to Luo to attend the meeting, the local military and financial resources were weakened, causing the local area to fall into poverty and hardship.
Since the central government cannot have an overwhelming advantage, it can be considered an effective strategy to continuously weaken the local strength and make the local governments unable to resist the central government.
However, local forces will fall into more and more poverty and desperation due to the central government's exploitation, and their hatred of the central government will become deeper and deeper.
This is tantamount to lengthening the fuse of the bomb and delaying the explosion, but one day it will lead to a total explosion of conflicts that have been suppressed to the extreme, with disastrous consequences.
The third is to use the food stamp system, a silent method of spring rain, to continuously draw blood and take away their wealth in a financial method that the martial arts family in the medieval era could not understand.
The Spo central government can receive financial supplements, but local forces can only blame themselves for not working hard when they are poor, resulting in an economic state of strong branches and weak branches.
As long as the Sibo family's food stamp system operates well, the whole island's finances can be used to support the Sibo family, forming a lighthouse effect like Sibo's dream, siphoning wealth and talents to serve the Sibo family.