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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 97 Nine Ghosts and Marines (Second update)

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    The public enjoys the right to be exempted from local taxes. Of course, if you do business, you will still have to deal with customs fees and miscellaneous taxes from various places. But the tribute in Shangluo is different. Historically, the manor has only withheld tribute, and there is no reason for tribute to be withheld halfway.  , the embezzlement party can use natural disasters, military chaos, etc. as an excuse, and the only reason for interception is greed. A lord who is greedy for everything without knowing the importance is easily attacked by everyone, so the Kira family wants to use the excuse of paying tribute every year.  Obtaining profits is indeed a tricky idea.  It is already remarkable that the people of Mikawa can think of this level. On a deeper level, only Nobuzada Ohuchi can think of it. He wants to use the opportunity of transporting the Kira family's own sea salt to Luo to open up the salt sales channel from the Kira family to Sakamoto.  , the promise of the Owari Tsushima Ohashi family cannot satisfy his appetite, and only the farther Gyeonggi area is the best choice to maximize profits.  "The price of salt in the Kinai is uneven. Crude sea salt costs about 500 franc per stone, and slightly pure sea salt costs around 500 franc per stone. The refined sea salt produced by our salt pond has never appeared in the ki Nei. It is not reasonable to cause high prices in the short term.  Question However, it is still necessary to control the price in the long-term operation. The expenses such as transportation, transportation, and management of the people are approximately three guanwen per stone. As long as the price is more than 6 guanwen, the Kira family can get half of the profit."  The annual salt production of the salt ponds has basically maintained at the level of three thousand and hundreds of koku, and the salt ponds of one generation have a total of more than eight thousand koku. The Tokaido trade route currently only maintains salt ponds in Owari, Ise, and Enji.  The house distributes refined sea salt. In order to prevent the Imagawa family from coveting it, there are no plans to build a salt house in Suruga yet. The method of making refined sea salt is monopolized by a branch of the Kira family, and it is temporarily in a monopoly position.  Of course, the big businessmen in Owari and Ise have noticed that the refined sea salt of the Kira family is extraordinary. In addition to eating a large amount, they have not given up the intention to obtain the technology. In the Tokaido and Mino areas, they can digest more than 3,000 koku.  Salt. In recent years, merchants traveling to and from Kanto for business would also eat a large amount of refined sea salt every time they stopped in Sanhe, as a regular means of returning goods to preserve capital.  The sales volume of refined sea salt has grown steadily. Last year, a total of 4,200 stones were sold. However, there is still a certain distance before the inventory is sold out. A large amount of it has been invested in the market and it is worried about rapid depreciation. Therefore, the Kira family has been reluctant to sell it for several years. If this happens  The first successful establishment of a salt house in Sakamoto, the Kinai's throughput of salt, let alone three thousand koku, could be distributed even five thousand koku, and the profit was an astonishing figure. As the ruler of Sakamoto Castle Town, Kira Yoshitoki could also  Get great tax returns.  Kira Yoshihiro told Okouchi Motaka: "Go back and tell Tajima Mamoru that our family has understood his plan! Let him prepare enough new salt and wait for the good news from our family!" "I will report it as soon as possible. The master of the hall will also  "What orders do you have?" "Just let Tajima Mamoru maintain his current state. The Imagawa family will be happy with the trend of Mikawa's power appearing to be in harmony with the spirit, and warn those retainers with illusions not to dream about the reunification of the two Kiraras, which will only bring trouble to the two families.  Disaster, please tell Tajima Mamoru to your brother!" Kira Yoshiki frowned slightly and decided to make it clear.  Mikawa doesn't have the great wisdom of the samurai family, but he has a lot of tricks and crooked thoughts. In terms of bravery, he is not much inferior to the Kanto samurai, but he can't change his short-sighted stereotypes. Yoshiki Kira has no intention to correct these short-sighted guys. Mikawa's split is in line with the Imagawa family.  His own interests are also in line with Kira Yoshitoki's interests. He hopes that the Matsudaira family will be divided into eight parts and each person will be independent and independent. Of course, he cannot say this out loud, he can only understand it and teach others to use it.  In early May, Masushige Takigawa, who was the most polished navy general of the Kira family, found Kira Yoshi: "Master! We cannot live without our own navy. If we don't make good use of such abundant inland waterways in Gyeonggi, it will be a waste of God's gift.  Ah!" "That's right! I have never thought about this problem! What do you mean?" "Please allow me to go back to Shima and recruit a group of sailors for my family!"  He bowed his head and bowed.  "Recruiting? No problem!" Kira Yoshitsune nodded to acknowledge his proposal, and then asked a new question: "But how can we build a ship if we don't have shipwrights? It seems very expensive to hire shipwrights in Sakai Town!" "This  Leave it to me to do it! In addition to the navy, our country has boatmen and fishermen. I dare not say that if there are more than a hundred boatmen, we can still pull it over!" Takigawa Masushige said with confidence.  "I see! Then leave it to Yizhong to do it! Once this is done, you will be a veritable naval general of our family!" "My wish is to command the iron artillery team for the master! Because I have not been to the sea in the past few years.  , I have been practicing iron artillery, so I kindly ask the master of the museum for permission to transfer to the iron artillery general." When talking about the iron artillery team, he seemed to remember what Takigawa Masushige said. He is good at iron artillery and hopes to serve as an iron artillery general and serve as an official.  The desired position?That's it. Even after being a polished commander for half a year, he still doesn't change his original intention. He is really a persistent guy.  "Okay! That's up to you! But you have to recruit a qualified navy general for our family! It must not be a dabbler!" "Yes!" Takigawa Masashige bowed and exited happily.  Not long after, Takigawa Masushige brought more than a hundred boatmen as promised, and more than two hundred sailors accompanied him. Their leader was Kuuki Shigetaka, who was born in the Shima Kuuki family. Kuuki Shigetaka was the current head of the Kuuki clan, Kuuki Taitaka.  His second son, his elder brother is the heir to the family governor, Kuuki Sadataka. Because he has no inheritance rights in the Kuuki family, he was attracted by his fellow villager Takigawa Masushige to join the Kira family.  "So you're from the Kuki family! Isn't your family the Kuki family of the Kumano clan? Later, because the clan failed to compete for the leadership position, you went to Shima to become a national, right?"  Shigetaka said excitedly: "Yes! My family is the Kumano Kuuki family!" "Isn't your family a powerful member of the Shima country? How could you think of defecting to our family?" Kira Yoshi had never heard of Kuuki Shigetaka, and he couldn't help but  Doubt his intentions.  "Due to the interference of the Kitahata family, the chief minister of Ise, the situation of the subordinate clan has become worse than before." The Kuki family has not been doing well in recent years. The reason is that the Kitahata family, the chief minister of Ise, has extended its tentacles to Shima country. As Shima  The Kuuki family, the leader of the seven parties and the largest force in Bochi County, must face the strong pressure from the Kitahata family. Facing the menacing Ise Kuniji, the Kuuki family naturally does not want to sit back and die. Over the years, the Kuuki family has roped in the Shima Seven Party to fight against Kitahata.  family, but as the trend of large-scale intervention of the Kitahata family becomes more and more obvious, more and more wealthy families are turning to the Kitahata family, and the Kuki family, the temporary leader of Shima country, is becoming more and more sad.  Therefore, the second son of the Jiugui family, Shigelong, once thought about seeking foreign aid, but no one could save them at this time. After many disappointments, Shigelong began to be pessimistic about the future of the Jiugui family. At this time, he encountered another  Takigawa Masushige learned from him that he was already a retainer of the Kira family, and that his brother Takigawa Kazumasushi also served in the Oda family, so Kuki Shigetaka's thoughts suddenly came to life.  When Takikawa Masushige invited him to serve in the Kira family, Kuuki Shigetaka agreed without hesitation, and then recruited more than a hundred people who followed him, including retainers of the same clan and old friends from the same hometown, as well as people whom Takigawa Masushige had recruited through old relationships.  More than a hundred navy soldiers went to Beijing together.  Later, Yoshitoki Kira asked some basic questions about navy operations, and appointed Kuuki Shigetaka as the navy general of the Kira family with a salary of two hundred years. The more than two hundred sailors were his subordinates. Kuuki Shigetaka was the first one after he took office.  I made a proposal for one thing: "Please ask the master of the museum to invite the Yodogawa people for discussion in the name of discussing Sakamoto water transportation matters!" "Sakamoto water transportation matters? I understand! Are you planning to control the inland water transportation people?"  Kira Yoshitoki praised: "This is indeed a good idea!"
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