Xinshun 1730

Chapter 444
"The Celestial Dynasty began in the Qin Dynasty, abolishing feudalism and establishing prefectures and counties. Looking at Japan, it is still feudal, with a bit of Spring and Autumn politics."

"When I read "The Family of Song Weizi" when I was young, I remembered the sentence 'Zheng defeated the Song master and captured Huayuan. The Song Dynasty redeemed Huayuan with a hundred soldiers and four hundred horses.'"

"Since it is a feudal system, each has its own land and food. It can follow the example of Song Dynasty's redemption of Huayuan in the past. How high is the Changzhou feudal stone?"

Feudalism has a feudal method of extorting money, and there is a unified method of debt collection.

Li Yan believed that Liu Yu must have taken the lead in presiding over the negotiations with Japan between the DPRK and China, and figured out how Liu Yu wanted to deal with Japan, so he made efforts in this direction.

As expected, Munehiro Mori heard the "but" followed by asking for money, and thought it was reasonable.

Ask Shi Gao, there is nothing to hide about this matter, anyway, Dashun must know, this is asking knowingly.

"36 million stone."

The number for a formal occasion was reported, but the actual stone height of the Changzhou Domain was not mentioned.

Li Yan also didn't know the actual stone height of the Changzhou clan, and the information he had was all public, so he nodded and said, "Then let's redeem it with three years of stone rice according to the stone height of each fiefdom. I don't want that either." Fractions, just make up the whole, a total of 100 million shi. According to the number of one shi and three taels in the Wa Kingdom, either rice or silver equivalent to 300 million taels."

"You can order someone to call back to the castle town first, and count the gold, silver, money and rice in Hagi Castle. If you collect 30 koku first, you can release it first. Then return it slowly."

The amount of 300 million taels shocked Maori Zonghiro all of a sudden.

Even if the Changzhou Fan has money, they can't afford 300 million taels, or 100 million shi of grain.

Shi Gao is not a salary, but the total number of fiefdoms. The stone height of 36 shi means that the total annual grain output of the entire Changzhou Fan is 36 shi.

Even if this stone is too watery, the Changzhou Fan is only less than a million stones. Even if the common people tie their necks for a year and don't eat or drink, it will take a year or two to pay back.

However, people are not grass and trees, and it is impossible to survive by basking in the sun, eating the wind and drinking the dew.

It really made the common people tie their necks and refuse to eat or drink, and the Changzhou Fan was messed up first.

Sesame seeds can be squeezed for oil, but you can't squeeze all the sesame seeds for oil.

Mao Li Zong Guang just wanted to counter the price, but when he thought about Dashun's condition, Xin Dao directly asked for so much money, and he must know that it would be impossible to pay all at once.

Doesn't that mean... Dashun will protect the existence of the Changzhou Domain so that they can pay back the money in the future?

He tentatively asked: "It's only natural to follow Song Song's example of redeeming Huayuan. However, the amount is too large, so I really can't give it."

Li Yan said with a smile: "If you can't give it all at once, the Chinese government can help you collect it. The benevolent government of the Chinese government, the tax is one for ten, and the stone is 36 shi high. The tax is one for ten, and the annual income is [-] shi. After a hundred years , I will return it to you, and the interest will not be charged, what do you think?"

When Mao Lizong heard the words, he was not surprised but happy, and thought, if you really want to occupy the land of Changzhou Fan, do you still need to say these words?
Having said these words, it means that he has no intention of occupying the land of the Changzhou Fan. As long as he can win a peace treaty with Dashun instead of asking the shogunate to sign it on his behalf, he can let Dashun guarantee the existence of the Changzhou Fan: Yes, who pays?
When the time comes, as long as I sign it, I will sign his name, Maori Zonghiro, and this IOU will be the basis for me to continue to rule the Changzhou Domain in the future!

For this IOU, Dashun will also protect the Maori clan to rule the Changzhou Domain.

Mori Zonghiro calculated in his mind the gold, silver and rice that Hagi City could produce now, and then asked the families of the samurai to put up their savings to make up nearly one million taels or hundreds of thousands of shi of rice.

The current situation is similar to that before and after the Dashun Army invaded Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty - if all the warriors were not arrested, the money would not be raised; Easy.

As long as the land is still there, as long as the people are still farming the land, gold, silver and rice can always be squeezed out.

Knowing that it was no longer time to bargain, he hurriedly said: "How about this, let's make up 100 million taels, or 33 shimi first. Redeem the warriors first. After that, the Changzhou Fan will pay the debts after ten years. Pay it off, and save the great power of the Celestial Dynasty to spend a hundred years here."

The remaining two-thirds are paid off in ten years, which is equivalent to extending the life of the Changzhou Fan for ten years.

Moreover, it is very difficult to repay 200 million taels of silver within ten years, but according to the price set by Dashun himself, one Japanese stone rice is equivalent to three taels of silver. On average, it is about one hundred thousand taels of rice per year. It costs a little more, but it can be squeezed out after a squeeze.

But Li Yan shook his head and said: "If you pay it off in ten years, the interest during this period should not be counted. If the Celestial Dynasty rules Changzhou by itself and does not charge interest, it is a benevolent government. You wait for yourself to pay back the money and pay it off in ten years. The interest has to be calculated. I will also give you a lesser discount on the interest, and I will give you 33 shi rice first. In the next ten years, the principal and interest will total 100 million shi."

"One more thing, this is a redemption. This IOU is not written by your family. Many warriors have names and surnames. The ransom price is divided equally according to the salary of each family. Everyone has to make a general agreement. IOU."

Thinking about collecting 100 million taels first, it's not bad.Even if half of it is gold and silver, and the rest is rice, this army ration is not only enough, but also very rich.In the future, it will be sold to trading companies at a low price, and they will be asked to discount the money and ship it away.

As for letting all the samurai who were captured or trapped in Hagi City jointly issue IOUs, they were actually in Baochangzhou Fan.

Changzhou's debt, Changzhou repays.The shogunate's debt, the shogunate repays.

If Changzhou and other southwestern vassals replaced the shogunate one day in the future, they would either accept the debt owed by the shogunate, or they would not pay back the money after winning Dashun; the reverse is also true.

This is a debt owed by all the samurai, and the samurai are not engaged in production, so they have to be exploited to repay the money.Therefore, the shogunate must not recognize the status of Changzhou Fan, at least the fiefdom of Changzhou Fan cannot be reduced.

Li Yan said again: "The ancients said, how can a gentleman use pledges? But since you were defeated, wouldn't the shogunate punish you? At that time, you will no longer be the lord of Changzhou. I will take care of who will take care of this account? The cost of buying warriors will also be paid. Since the samurai’s family came up with it themselves. Benevolence and justice are the foundation of this dynasty, and I can’t bear to let you exploit the people to pay back debts, right?”

Mori Zongguang thought this was excellent.

The money must be owed by the Mori family, and must be owed by the samurai.It can't be owed by Changzhou Fan.

If Maori owed it, Maori would pay it back. If Maori wanted to repay it, Dashun would have to keep Maori as the lord of the Changzhou Domain; .

Creditors will always protect what is owed.

So he flattered and said with a smile: "With the prosperity of China's military power, don't the noble troops in Hagi City come and go whenever they want? They have the heart of debts, and they have the power to pay back. Japan has its own national conditions, and it is different from China. Counties and counties have different routes. The debts of the Maori family will be repaid by the Maori family; the debts of the warriors will be repaid by the warriors."

Li Yan thought that you had a good plan, frowned and made a look of embarrassment, and let Mao Li Zongguang dry for a long time, then said: "This matter... has two difficulties."

"An order from the imperial court is to occupy Hagi City. I envy the story of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the court may not agree to release people privately. Therefore, even if this is the case, some people have to be left as hostages. If the imperial court thinks in the future, release people privately It was a big mistake, and it is good to have an explanation."

"Secondly, if the Heavenly Dynasty does benevolent and righteous things, you are the teacher of benevolence and righteousness. In the future, you will collect more taxes in the name of repaying the redemption, which will damage the name of the Heavenly Dynasty's benevolence and righteousness."

"How about this, let's limit it to ten years. You can send someone to tell the people that the teacher of benevolence and righteousness in the heaven will order you to wait for ten years to reduce the tax by [-]%. This is the benevolence of the heaven."

"Only these two points, if you don't follow, this matter will never be discussed again!"

There is a saying in Dashun, which is to be both proper and established. The conditions Li Yan is talking about now are the style of both being proper and establishing.

He is not a person who does not eat five grains, how can he not know that gold, silver and rice are all taken from the common people?

Mao Lizong said in his heart that the first condition sounds reasonable.

People under the eaves have to bow their heads and take some people as hostages. As long as they can be released in the future, there will be no problem.

But the second condition is a bit uncomfortable.

Ten years later, the tax will be reduced by [-]%.

As a feudal lord, the most fearful thing is that the people have hope.

Once the common people have something to look forward to, there will be hope.

If the future hope is shattered, it is better not to give a little hope at the beginning.

The key is that this hope is still given by Dashun.

Dashun wanted both money and fame.Asking for money is actually simple, keep the current tax level unchanged, all the warriors are bought, and all the warriors have to share, and the warriors can bear to pay off Dashun's request in ten years.

But after enduring, this enduring cannot be regarded as the norm.If it is the norm, the warriors will definitely feel dissatisfied.

If after the announcement, this policy is not implemented ten years later, and the original taxation continues to be retained, the people will definitely rise up.At that time, Dashun will have enough reasons to interfere.

However, now that he is forced to this position, he really treats me like a knife. Mao Li Zongguang thought that he, who was defeated, was not qualified to negotiate terms, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "This matter is not about my Maori family. Please also allow me to go back and discuss with everyone."

Li Yan was not afraid of nights and dreams, let alone that he would run away, so he waved his hand generously and asked people to take Mao Li Zongguang away.

Back on the hill, all the trusted retainers gathered around, Mao Li Zongguang said Li Yan's conditions, and all the warriors only thought that he had negotiated with his best efforts, thinking that each of them owed debts for more than ten years, although it was a bit painful .But it's better than dying in this place and having nothing in the end.

Mao Li Zongguang knew that this was the time to win people's hearts and make them loyal, so he said: "Everyone is my humerus. There are still some grains and property in Hagi City, and you can pay back part of it first. I'm afraid I will have to endure it, and my salary will be halved to pay off the debt."

"Ten years of suffering, gentlemen."

In the heart of everyone's gratitude and loyalty, according to the system of grading warriors, they wrote the IOUs and agreed to stay in the Dashun Army as hostages.

Mao Li Zongguang knew that he couldn't escape, so he definitely wanted to stay.This is a humiliation, but if the Dashun army keeps its word in the future and releases it after the peace talks, the fact that I am a hostage on Dashun's side can become a good story in the hearts of the warriors.

(End of this chapter)