Chapter six hundred and sixty-ninth linen pressing Uesugi
Tobi Castle is the center of Kanto Shiba, not only the two big guys live here. The leaders of various families are also finishing their military and political affairs here this year, preparing to return to their territories for the winter.
Daxiong Chaoxiu is in a bad mood these days.
After she joined the Kanto Palace and managed the Hokuriku Road trade route, the attitudes of various families in Echigo became more and more cautious towards her, and the contempt and humiliation before was no longer the same.
Especially this time, she resolutely sided with the Shiba family and fully mobilized and supported Shima Shengmu to go to the Kawanakajima Plain to help in the battle. Yoshihiro Shiba appreciated her attitude, officially accepted her and entrusted her with an important task.
But just when she returned with great satisfaction, she was severely slapped in the face.
The deliberation at the Sibo family palace was over. She had just returned to Tongwei City when she received an urgent message from the Chinese and Vietnamese followers.
Daxiong Chaoxiu and his family only received one hundred kuan from the tax rebate set by Shiba Yiyin.
Daxiong Chaoxiu’s face is swollen! Who are you looking down on! Does she lack this little money?
Since the recent visits to Kanto, Yiyin has not brought any government personnel. Business is almost entirely entrusted to Okuma Asahide, and only one Ishida Mitsunari is assigned as an adjutant to supervise.
Daxiong Chaoxiu handles thousands of business profits every day. She lacks the benefit of tax rebates from her second father-in-law?
But this is a very bad signal, indicating that although Yoshigan Shiba values her, in the eyes of the Uesugi retainers, she is still a bully who can be bullied at will.
Daxiong Chaoxiu is no longer the poor person without a backer. She wrote a letter to Shibo Yiyin crying and sent someone to investigate the specific situation of the tax refund of the second husband.
The results of the investigation made her laugh out loud.
The adherents of the Uesugi family were protected too well by Uesugi Teruhu and were too arrogant. This group of arrogant people made a big mistake this time.
It turns out that they were quite wary of Daxiong Chaoxiu, so they divided at least one hundred strings between them.
The Yang Beizhong side only gave out fifty guans, who the hell can endure this? Most martial arts families would go crazy, how can those unruly warrior women endure this humiliation?
The territory of Daxiong Chaohide's line was only tens of thousands of koku, divided into one hundred kan. The Yangbei clan occupied 40% of Echigo's territory, only 50 kan? Interesting.
Da Xiong laughed and slapped the ground toward Xiu, the smile on his face getting colder and colder.
The Kanto strategy is imminent, and the two masters Uesugi and Shiba are worried about uniting the internal forces. At this time, the Uesugi disciples are still calculating the 40,000 yuan of tax rebates from the second father-in-law, pig brains!
Sure enough, Okuma Chaohide received a reply soon, and Yoshihiro Shiba ordered her to teach the Uesugi family a lesson, and they must make the Uesugi family spit out the tax rebate they had swallowed.
The most interesting thing is that the letter not only bears the signature of Yoshihiro Shiba, but also the signature of Teru Uesugi.
The two masters only stipulated the time for solving the problem, but did not give any instructions on the scale control.
Daxiong Chaoxiu got the letter and read it three times to make sure he understood it correctly. He immediately looked up to the sky and smiled.
I have endured it for so many years, but I never thought I would be able to wait until today! OK, OK! If I don’t teach the Uesugi family an unforgettable lesson, I’ll be sorry for pretending to be a grandson all these years!
She immediately held a meeting and summoned her subordinates to carry out the deliberation.
When the concubines were seated, she was impatient and said solemnly.
"Uesugi followed the yang and yin, and tampered with the benevolent government established by the emperor. Now the people in Echigo are panicking.
There is an order from the imperial court, ordering me to take back the tax returns of the Second Duke that were swallowed up by them."
The followers under his command were all talking about it, and one man came out and bowed.
"Sir, this matter is not easy to handle.
As you know, those people in the Uesugi School are all greedy guys who only eat without spitting out.
They won't know the pain if they don't do it harshly, but if they do, I'm afraid His Highness Uesugi won't like it. If it ruins the overall situation of cooperation between the two families, the Imperial Palace may not be happy."
Da Xiong Chao Xiu said with a smile.
"The letter from the Imperial Office made it clear that this matter must be dealt with urgently, and it did not restrict my means. The letter also had His Highness Uesugi's signature on it.
It seems that His Highness Uesugi is also very angry."
The men looked at each other from left to right, and the atmosphere gradually became excited.
They are enemies in the same profession. The old guardians of the group were often abused in the past, and the Uesugi group was very targeted towards them.
Now, with the Shangfang sword given by the two masters, I have to kill these bastards.
One person came out of the queue and smiled.
"Since we have the endorsement of two His Highnesses, we simply cut off the Uesugi family's share and stop the strategy of selling low and buying high in the market."
Da Xiong Chao Xiu thought for a while, shook his head and said.
"inappropriate.
The cooperation between the two parties is of great importance to the overall situation. If the Uesugi people don't follow the rules, we can't bully them too much.
Dividing goods, buying high and selling low, these three strategies were the grand plan set by Odaisho to win over Echigo's people.
If we go too far, the Uesugi family will lose their sense of security and feel that we can break our trust at any time and cut off the supply of goods.
Once the trust between the two parties is lost, it will be difficult to build it up again. In the future, the income will be reduced and we will not be able to provide money and food to the Lord, which will not be easy for us."
Daxiong Chaohide is not thinking about those bastards in the Uesugi family, but for himself.
Doing business is a matter of mutual consent. If one party is too strong, it can cut off the channel at any time. Then the other party feels controlled by others and will naturally choose to reduce dependence.
Now that the Hokuriku Road trade route is prosperous, it is a good pole for Okuma Asahi to climb up. She can't cut off the pole for her superiority in order to take revenge on the Uesugi family, right?
If she really did this, she would be even more stupid than Uesugi.
Another person came out and said.
"To make the Uesugi family suffer and spit out two cents of tax rebate, we must scare them. Cutting off all share and market will ultimately hurt both sides.
But if we only find a bulk cargo that we have an advantage over and use it to intimidate, it’s still feasible.”
Da Xiong raised his eyebrows at Chao Xiu, looked at this Ji, and asked.
"Which one do you want to cut off?"
"linen."
Big Bear lowered his head towards Xiu and thought.
"go on."
"Sir, the Ming Dynasty goods and Nanban goods shipped from the Hokuriku Road are mostly luxury goods and specialties. The Uesugi family will not be able to hold them for a while.
But linen is different.
Salt, iron, cloth, and rice are all necessities of life, and there is no shortage of them in Echigo. However, the green hemp cloth woven from the green hemp grown in Echigo is of the highest quality.
Most of the Kanto samurai families were poor, and the Echigo samurai family always transported green linen cloth to Kyoto for sale, and then purchased cheap and low-quality linen cloth for their own use.
Ever since we opened up Naoetsu, the Joetsu samurai family has made a lot of money.
Merchant ships coming to Echigo cannot return to Tsuruga Port empty-handed. Now Echigo's green hemp cloth is sold to us at a 30% discount, and we don't have to worry about transportation.
The linen we shipped from recent times was sold to local samurai families at 30% lower than the price in the Kanto market. Even if they don't use it all themselves, they can still make a small profit by selling it to Kanto cloth merchants."
Da Xiong clapped his hands towards Xiu and said with a smile.
"Okay! This is a good idea!"
Before he could finish his words, Daxiong Chaohide understood everything. Azabu was indeed the Achilles heel of the Uesugi retainers.
On the one hand, most of the samurai who can play with market price differences are near Naoetsu.
This is the Takata Plains, the base of the Uesugi family, and of course it is the territory of the Uesugi family's important officials.
On the other hand, although Teruhora Uesugi promised to go to the outer samurai family in the middle of the country, he would share the profits and grow green hemp.
But it had only been more than half a year, and the related planting and textile industries had not yet spread, and the bulk of the profits from green hemp cloth were still in the hands of the Uesugi retainers.
Restricting all goods will definitely cause big trouble, but targeting linen, a bulk commodity, is acceptable to the market.
The tax rebate by the second public servant was a benevolent policy set by Shiba Yiyin, but Uesugi insisted on implementing it into a bad policy. The imperial office was so shameless!
Let Daxiong Chaohide come forward and slap Uesugi in the face to seek benefits and justice for the middle and lower outskirts of the samurai family, and no one has anything to say.