Pillars of the Wu family

In addition to the daily profit of hundreds of pennies during the opening of the money house, now that the market has stabilized, it can bring him tens of pennies of Yongle money in net profit every day, which is even more profitable than the money printing machine. There are many, and the income of the money house is very hidden, and laymen can't see the doorway inside. Only big businessmen who are proficient in this way will vaguely notice something wrong. Of course, they are all people in the circle and no one will offend them. money house.

The popularity of the three-way exchange of goods has naturally brought huge profits to the Kira family, but the business of the three-way exchange of goods has not been smooth sailing. There will never be a shortage of smart people in this world. Some people do not have amazing talents, but they have different talents This kind of crooked idea, they come up with low-quality silver mixed with various metals, gold to exchange for Yongle money, usually this kind of trick will be exposed, and occasionally a cunning person bullies the clerk of the money house who doesn’t understand, and can get a sum of money .

After several vicious accidents, the ninjas of the Hattori family dispatched and grabbed a few criminals, not only making them spit out the money, but also putting them in sacks and throwing them into the Yodo River to feed the fish. Develop a set of fineness inspection mechanism.

Judging the fineness of precious metals such as gold and silver from the color, weight, and clarity of writing, the density of gold, silver and other variegated metals is different, so the volume under the same weight will also be different. With this feature, the money house can also It is easy to distinguish the fineness of gold and silver, and there has been no accident of being cheated out of Yongle money since then.

Some merchants saw that Zeniya’s business was booming and suffered from pink eye disease, and they wanted to get involved. Therefore, in Kyoto, Sakai Town, Kannonji Town, and many commercial towns in Kinki, businesses similar to Zeniya have sprung up. These followers are not at all. Knowing the internal system of the money house, and not knowing how the money house makes money, it will only follow the same pattern to raise some gold, silver and copper coins to open smoothly.

It is not known how many of them are related to the Naya people in Sakaimachi, or even the rich merchants from various local guilds, but they did not make any money, because it was impossible for Kira Yoshito to allow these people to share the profits of the money house with him. The newly opened money houses in various places were forcibly exchanged for all Yongle money by a large wave of merchants carrying a large amount of gold and silver.

And what's even more outrageous is that they will exchange as much silver as you have collected from Yongle. In the end, these merchants and the forces behind them can no longer support this exchange method, so they can only terminate the business of the three goods exchange. How to explain to the townspeople who really want to exchange Yongle money?In the end, these new firms were forced to collapse because they had no money to exchange when they first opened, and their reputation went bankrupt.

Then some merchants bought the silver at a low price with Yongle money. The new firms with a bankrupt reputation could only choose to accept or reject them, and go to the money house to exchange Yongle coins in person, but most of the bankrupt new firms chose to accept these low prices. The acquisition by way of sale may really be unable to face the cynicism of the Kira family's money house.

Since then, no one in the entire Yodogawa or even the entire Kinki area has dared to compete with the Kira family's money house. The business of the house must not be opened indiscriminately if it is not within the sphere of influence of oneself. Once the local lord finds out the secret, they will turn their faces and snatch it away. At that time, he will have no place to cry.

In fact, outside the Kinki area, only the Shikoku, Owari, and Ise towns near Kinai have a chance to open money houses, and going to distant countries is even more dangerous, not to mention the logistics pressure.

The three money houses in Kira Yoshishishi relied on the advantage of Yodogawa’s water transportation. The currency changes at any point of the Sanhuotong exchange could be replenished or withdrawn by shipping. Without the support of the Yodogawa people, he would not be able to control Sakamoto Town and Kyoto at the same time. , Sakaimachi three exchange rates for the purpose of price.

At the beginning of August, the actions of the Miyoshi family and the Hatakeyama family became more and more frequent. What was even more interesting was that Harumoto Hosokawa, unwilling to be lonely, went to Omi to find his brother-in-law Yoshiken Rokkaku. After discussing for a while, the two decided to take the opportunity to join forces with the Hatakeyama family. They fought against the Miyoshi family together, so the coalition forces of Liujiao and Hosokawa merged with 1 people and marched towards Hanoi. The chaos in Kinki was really unrest.

A series of incidents also happened in Sanhe Kingdom. It was said that a series of incidents were related to the laws of the Imagawa family. Yoshimoto Imagawa successively punished several wealthy families of Mikawa who did not obey the ruling of the "Imagawa False Name List". Imagawa Yoshimoto called to Suruga to rule on issues such as the struggle for inheritance rights, or the struggle between two powerful families for land and water sources.

Of course, it is not surprising that Imagawa Yoshimoto's ruling cannot be understood. Naturally, one party's interests will be damaged in the ruling lawsuit.

This gave Imagawa Yoshimoto the opportunity to take action to suppress, and wiped out several disobedient Sanhe wealthy families one after another, and completed the routine of killing chickens to make an example of monkeys, and initially established the Imagawa family's complete control over Mikawa Kingdom.

In this incident, both the Kira family and the Matsudaira family maintained a cold-eyed attitude, even if these wealthy families belonged to him, they would not ignore them. Imakawa Yoshimoto was very satisfied with the performance of these two families, and recruited the two family governors in Junfu With great praise, Yoshiya Kira was also given an excuse to stay in Junfu for a long time. In Imakawa Yoshimoto's words, it is more customary for his beloved daughter Tsuruhime to live at home because he cannot leave his hometown.

At the same time, the Chihsei entrustment of the leader of the Kira family and the power in the family also fell into the hands of the genealogists of the Kira family. Asahina Tai was ordered to serve as the second servant of the Kira family. hour

It is very clear that Matsudaira Takechiyo also enjoyed this kind of treatment in history. Fortunately, the genealogies of the Kira family are very loyal. It is destined that Yoshimoto Imagawa's tricks will not be of much use.

Matsudaira Takechiyo was much worse, he could only follow Taiyuan Xuezhai as a young apprentice serving tea and pouring water, and the Kira family was recruited as Olympic aid because of their strong army and Kyoto's Kira Yoshitoshi, Imakawa Yoshimoto would never be there At this time, take action against the Kira family, so Imakawa Yoshimoto turned his attention to the successively weakened Matsudaira family, planning how to use this cannon fodder.

Kira Yoshitoshi also felt that the Kira family could not continue to recruit samurai. Taking away too many samurai would cause the Mikawa Kira family to lose too much blood and die, so he wrote to Okochi Nobutada to tell him this idea. It didn’t take long for Okochi Nobuya to die The letter was sent back. In his letter, he stated that he would not send Mikawa samurai to Kyoto again.

At this time, the number of samurai assigned by Mikawa Kira's family has also decreased by nearly half, and the redundant members of each family and the retainers who may have concealed disputes have been cleared out.

Not using Mikawa samurai does not mean not using Mikawa peasants. For example, a small half of the 2000 or [-] Mikawa under his command are peasants, and the main body of Saijobi is the rich peasant class of Mikawa.

They now live in Omi in the glory of Kirayoshi, and their life is stable and the treatment is good. Moreover, the water and soil in the Omi area is even better than that of the Yahagi River. There are mountains, water, and famous temples. It is only one step away from Kyoto. It is so wonderful. I don't know how many Sanhe people's eyes are envied.

Therefore, under the hint of Yoshitomi Kira, Saijo was busy writing letters to his family. The semi-literate samurai with a similar script stuttered and wrote a letter of ghosts. The townspeople who write letters from home, they don't have to worry about not being able to take their words back.

In less than a month, the news of the founding of Kinta Myoun Temple spread to all corners of Kinai, and it expanded rapidly by virtue of the influence of Kira's Bodhi Temple in Kyoto. Many foreign monks studying in Kinki saw the completeness and generous treatment of the Buddhist temple. , followed by a large influx, and some people took a fancy to the Kira family behind Miaoyun Temple, and some of them were very interesting monks.

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