Six hundred and seventieth chapters Yiyin scalp hemp
Naoe Keizuna sighed and explained to Daxiong Chaohide and the two masters above.
"The land and climate of Echigo are very suitable for growing green hemp. Until the Lord allows the cultivation of green hemp in Nakagetsu, only the Uesugi family's territory can participate.
Echigo can be considered a fertile land, but the income from the land is only a little more food.
If you want to live a comfortable life, you need to grow other cash crops. It is nothing more than growing beans and hemp, which are used in exchange for daily necessities such as salt.
The yield of beans is much lower than that of rice, and beans are military supplies for war horses. Most of them are forced to grow by the military family. The purchase price is low, and you can't make money by planting them.
Green flax is different. It is planted in the spring and harvested in the autumn. After the harvest is completed, it is spread on the ground for retting and needs to be left for about twenty days.
It is almost the end of autumn. Taking advantage of the slack agricultural season in autumn and winter, everyone will be making and weaving linen at home.
Nakayoshi got the right to grow green hemp, but it was too late and he didn't catch up with the solar term, so he couldn't plant much this year. The green hemp cloth on the market now is still a specialty of the Uesugi family.
Green linen cloth is hard currency and can be used as copper coins. Not only the foolish village women are reluctant to wear it, but also the middle and lower class warriors are reluctant to wear it. If they are sold, they can be exchanged for low-quality hemp, salt and other daily necessities.
The cultivation and weaving of green flax is almost the only extra income for the middle and lower classes of the family. Over the years, everyone has become accustomed to including it in the annual income.
It is late autumn and early winter now, and families are knitting linen and weaving cloth in preparation for exchange for supplies for the winter.
Once the linen market is closed and the linen cloth cannot be sold or exchanged for anything, the livelihood of the lower-class warriors will soon be in trouble.
You can't exchange green linen cloth for salt, and poor cloth, should you use the grain stored at home?
The poor at the bottom have to eat the food they have saved for a few mouths at home. If they sell the food they save, they can’t eat the seed grains for next spring’s cultivation, right?
A few feet of green linen might be a trivial matter in the eyes of the two masters. But in the eyes of the low-level servants and village women, it is the lifeblood of surviving the winter.
Since the opening of the convenient Hokkaido sea transport, the caravans that Echigo organized to sell cloth in Kamikaze have disappeared, and no one will buy green hemp cloth.
If the hemp cloth market in Naoetsu is closed for another ten days, and the middle and lower classes become depressed and desperate, they will give up this income and find another way."
At this point, Naoe Keizuna stopped and swallowed.
Daxiong Chaoxiu's face was already turning blue. She never expected it to be so serious.
Yoshigan Shiba glanced at Terutora Uesugi standing aside. No wonder she came over in a hurry with Naoe Keizuna.
Teruhora Uesugi is just afraid of trouble when she is rough. She is not stupid. The Azabu market has a lot to do with it. Once you understand the power of it, everyone will be numb.
Although Naoe Keizuna didn't say any more, the subtext was already very clear.
Once the linen market is closed and green linen cloth cannot be sold, the middle and lower classes will choose other methods and exchange other things for daily necessities for the winter.
There is not much real hard currency, and most of what the poor middle and lower classes can afford is food.
Without food, the situation is unstable. Once there is a lack of food and clothing in the coming year, the lower class of the Uesugi family will definitely hate the Shiba family for closing the linen market.
In order not to be controlled by others, they will definitely reorganize the caravan that is time-consuming, labor-intensive and earns little money, and go to Luo on their own so as not to be choked by the Spo family.
With reduced income and lack of rations, the cooperation between the Uesugi and Shiba families will inevitably be affected. The hatred of the Uesugi family towards the Shiba family by the middle and lower classes is more difficult to deal with than the greed of the high-level samurai family.
It's easy to bribe a few upper-level bosses, but when hundreds or thousands of lower-level warriors hate you, that's the real trouble.
They don't care about any exchange of benefits.
I will only remember that winter, because the Shiba family closed the linen market, they had to go through the winter hungry, and even several people in the family died.
Just thinking about this consequence made Shiba Yiyin's scalp numb. Daxiong Chaoxiu had accidentally stung a hornet's nest.
At this time, if you are thinking of punishing the Uesugi retainers or causing the Uesugi family to bleed, let’s open the azabu market first!
Naoe Keizuna observed Shiba Yoshigan's reaction and saw that his face was serious, obviously he understood the seriousness.
She continued.
"The Imperial Office, please be patient. I ordered yesterday in Naoejin to close all market transactions.
No one can buy or sell now, even if someone wants to exchange food for necessities, it cannot be done."
Yiyin couldn't help but admire it.
"good!"
Well done Naoe Keetsuna.
Naoetsu is already the largest trading center in Echigo, and even vendors traveling in the villages purchase goods from Naoetsu.
Regardless of whether the middle and lower classes were willing to exchange grain for daily necessities, Naoe Keetsuna stopped all transactions in Naoetsu, and no one could do business for the time being.
Those at the bottom want to impulsively exchange food for supplies, but there is no way to do so. They can only stop and wait.
Shiba Yiyin sighed.
"Naoe-sama, you have made great contributions to this matter. Your Highness Uesugi is really lucky to have you as your assistant."
Yiyin's unintentional words made Daxiong Chaoxiu's face feel hot.
Although her subordinate Feng Xing came up with the idea, she was not aware of the problem, which was a big mistake in itself.
If it hadn't been for Naoe Keetsuna's quick response, the subsequent negative impact of this time might have caused the cooperation between the two companies to collapse.
But this is not the fault of Daxiong Chaoxiu.
She had been bullied by the peripheral samurai family in the Uesugi family before, and had no access to the benefits of green hemp, so naturally she didn't know the powerful relationship between it.
But things are already like this, Daxiong Chaoxiu accidentally cheated Sibo Yiyin this time.
Naoe Keizuna had been so panicked before, punishing the followers, smashing pots and selling iron to collect money, and coming to kowtow to apologize for his crimes and let him be beaten and punished.
This gesture was enough, but it kicked the ball to Shiba Yiyin, making him embarrassed.
Punishment is definitely not enough. The situation is almost out of control now. If it continues, something big will happen.
If there is no punishment, Sibo Yiyin can only come out to help and smooth things over. Therefore, he still has to pay, and he will still be the one who has been taken advantage of.
Naoe Keizuna looked like a loyal king, and for the sake of the overall situation, he did not hesitate to force Uesugi to commit mass bleeding, which was a success but no fault.
Her desperate posture was to wait for the big bear Chaoxiu behind her to come up and hold her back, so as not to completely ruin the situation.
Da Xiong Chao Xiu suffered a frustrating loss, and she had to thank Naoe Keizuna for saving the overall situation. He stepped forward and grabbed her and said, Sister, forget it, I will pay for it.
Shiba Yiyin just felt palpitating, but Daxiong Chaoxiu felt extremely sick.
Naoe Keetsuna was loyal and loyal, but deep down he was very sinister.
The ball was kicked to Shiba Yiyin. Can Daxiong Chaoxiu not share the worries for his master? She was the one who dug this hornet's nest!
Yoshihiro Shiba and Terutora Uesugi have nothing to say. This time the tax rebate from the two fathers is another confusing account. It is neither hateful nor punishable.
One hair move affects the whole body.
Naoe Keetsuna passed the customs safely, and the interests of the Uesugi family will not be affected too much.