Pillars of the Wu family

The rebuilding of Sakamoto Castle Town was very fast. The joint efforts of Ana Taigong and Hida Workers demolished the castle town in half a month. Near Sakamoto Port, many tents provided by Kira’s family were erected. After the battle, it was thrown into the warehouse, and it was taken out to arrange the residents of Sakamoto Port to live in it.

The newly built town will have a main road every [-] ken, and it will be divided into modules of [-] ken horizontally and vertically, just in line with the castle town. At the same time, a six-ken wide street will be reserved as the main road, and at the same time, Sakamoto The side of the port near the shore of Lake Biwa is planned as a port town, which is responsible for the handling and transfer of cargo terminals.

Other towns with strange names, such as Shangcho, Jobcho, Mincho, Hanamachi, Funamachi, etc., were laid out row by row. Because the plan was getting bigger and bigger, there were overruns, and the total budget was [-] more. In terms of execution, in the words of Hosokawa Fujitaka, if you spend more now, you will collect more taxes in the future, so Yoshitoki Kira agreed without saying anything.

The smooth implementation of the Sakamoto Rakushi Order and the Sakamoto Port Town Reconstruction Order has dealt a huge blow to the merchants in Sakamoto Port. The former cut off the basis for their survival from a legal point of view. As an artificial middle layer between the lord and the townspeople, their existence is Illegal, with the endorsement of the Kira family's decree, the townspeople will naturally no longer listen to the call of the merchants.

The latter attack was more thorough. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the reconstruction of Sakamoto Port, the townspeople and merchants were completely separated into two places. With the mobilization of the magistrate, general labor was collected on the spot to build a new town, attracted by the vigorous vitality of the adjacent castle town. , the townspeople were quickly attracted by the big cakes drawn by Kira's family. How could merchants fight against a lord with military power? and blood swallow.

Ninagawa's elder brother, who is the general governor, is only 19 years old now. He cooperates with the only Hosokawa Fujitaka to plan the entire castle town, and is also responsible for the supervision and control of the construction. The year was very happy, working hard every day to make a city bigger and stronger in his hands, and finally gaining a new life. This is full of sense of accomplishment, and it is much more interesting than beheading people in battle.

In contrast, the 25-year-old Odate Harutada is more troublesome as a tax administrator. He is responsible for collecting taxes and fees to replenish the treasury. Some fishermen who don’t farm have to convert the value of the fish and shrimp. Not only that, but he also has to find someone to sell the fish and shrimp as soon as possible, otherwise the tax will be levied in vain.

Taxation has always been a hassle. I often have disputes with local farmers and land servants because of taxation. Farmers have no money and just want to hand over their grain. However, every household grows different grains. Some grow more rice, but less miscellaneous grains. Some turn this in reverse, while others grow vegetables, fruits, mulberry trees, etc., all of which have to be determined and taxed one by one, and then summarized by category. Those that are not suitable for storage have to be sold immediately.

Not only that, but he also needs to collect dongbie money, which is a kind of house tax. The tax is levied according to the size of the house. The more houses, the more people will naturally pay more. This tax is relatively easy to collect. The houses in the countryside are basically peasants. For the houses built by yourself, you can check how much tax you pay for a few houses. Farmers usually don’t store copper coins, which is a troublesome thing.

Taxation is a hard job. It is really not easy to go back and forth between the two counties of Shiga Takashima. Before that, Odate Harutada had to resist all the taxation alone, but after Mitsui Toraka served as the prosecutor, he It is much easier to handle. The inspection of the land is to discuss some land issues with the peasants in the countryside. With the assistance of this experienced inspector, the work he has to do is reduced by half. Considering the actual difficulty of tax collection, when Ji Liangyi They are also specially allowed to call the underground people in the countryside as a force to assist in the collection of taxes.

One year younger than Odate Harutada, who is only 24 years old this year, Matsui Yukan, who is in charge of the town, is more comfortable than him. There is a unique skill, that is, the abacus with both hands, all kinds of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are very fast.

What's even more outrageous is that he still has the ability to focus on two things. While looking at the accounts, his hands plan to report the exact numbers. It only needs a small surname to record each group of numbers by category. I watched it once, and even a group of friends were shocked by the scene.

However, as Hosokawa Fujitaka promoted the reconstruction of the castle town, Matsui Yukan increasingly found that he was a bit too busy to focus on two tasks, and when he approached Kira Yoshito: "My Lord, please transfer His Highness Ina to help! The work of building the city has already been completed, and it is really a waste of talent to let His Highness Ina take up a idle position."

"No problem, the main family is about to tell you that the main family has returned to Sakamoto Castle, Fujitaka's post of Joyoro will be removed, and he will be the head of the chief executive officer. The specific position will remain the same as the head of the executive officer, and your position will also be new. The adjustment, the new position is the city affairs executive, from the side to formulate financial and tax statistics, assist in the appointment and management of government affairs, since you mentioned Zhongjia, he will disband you as the town administration!"

"Yes! I understand! I have another private request, please allow my younger brother Shinsaburo Nobuyuki to leave the Kira House."

"Oh! Is it the youngest of your three brothers? I remember meeting him once. He just turned 20 this year! Since he is your younger brother, he must also have a good talent for government affairs! My family has approved it!" Yoshiki Kira thought for a while , and said: "Let him be the first executive officer of Qianwu!"

Matsui Yukan is very smart, knowing that he was tied to the ship of the Kira family, so he took the opportunity to recommend his brother to be the person in charge of implementing the money-making order in Kyoto. Tying his family to the big ship of the Kira family was the most typical political speculation during the Sengoku period in Japan.

At the beginning of February, the promotion of the money-making order in Kyoto was in full swing. Different from the many money-making orders issued by the shogunate in the past, this time the decree was also matched with the newly established money house in Kyoto. The designated place for exchanging money with Yongle money is In this money house, some well-connected wealthy merchants in Kyoto have already found out that the Kira family is behind it, so this plain paper suddenly became popular.

It is worth mentioning that Yanagisawa Motomasa was appointed as the head of the Kyoto Zen House. This gentleman was born in the Yanagi family, a branch of the Hino family of the Fujiwara Kita family. , I also had a short conversation with Yoshitoki Kira, who served Yoshiharu Ashikaga and Yoshito Ashikaga successively.

Liu Yuan Qingzheng was loyal to the two generations of the shogunate. His son Yanagisawa Motomasa officially changed the word Miao to Liu Ze when he was in Yuanfu. Qingzheng became an official in the shogunate as a samurai. In fact, it was a trick that the Hino family came up with to strengthen their bond with the shogunate.

The Hino family used to have many shogun’s main chambers, among which there are many well-known figures, such as the two main chambers of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Hino Yeko and Hino Yasuko, the main chambers of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Hino Eiko, and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’s The main room Hino Zongzi, the concubine Hino Shigeko, and Hino Tomiko who caused the Onin Rebellion.

Their family rose up because they were close to the ministers of the emperor who held Mingyuan’s rule, and they rose up for the Ashikaga Takashi. As the Ashikaga family became the general of conquering barbarians, they became famous for a while, but since the ancestor Ashikaga Yoshiharu After marrying the daughter of the Konoe family, the Hino family began to be neglected, which is why their family came here with a mission.

Motomasa Yanagisawa of Gangyuanfu cherishes this appointment very much and works very hard. He often goes back and forth between Kyoto and Sakamoto with the materials for writing money orders. His father told him a simple truth, do things down-to-earth, and see opportunities It must be grasped, so when Yoshiki Yoshitoshi proposed the money writing order and the official affairs of the money house at the Nijo Imperial Palace, Motomasa Yanagisawa volunteered to take over the job.

Compared with working as a close servant with the general and slowly gaining qualifications, it is a shortcut to be appointed as the executive officer by Kira Yoshishiki. Now the whole Kyoto knows that Kira Yoshishiki was a celebrity in the court and the shogunate, and he can climb up to his tree Big trees are definitely of unlimited benefit to the future.

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ps: Yanagisawa Motomasa is a historical figure, but in history, it was just a piece of soy sauce, and most of the shogunate became soy sauce. This has something to do with Ashikaga Yoshiki's great tragedy. It is very fortunate in the middle of the night. Please bookmark, click, and recommend .

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