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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 160 Ancient Currency War

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    The short trip to Kyoto ended quickly, and Kira Yoshi returned to Sakamoto Castle quietly. The expansion work near Sakamoto Castle was finally completed at this time. The newly built Sakamoto Castle was expanded a lot, and the Sakamoto Port Town became the same.  Similar to the straight Sakai Town, the wide and flat avenues and the neatly arranged Sakai Towns at all levels all show that the founder of Sakamoto Castle had extraordinary courage and ambition.  All the craftsmen sent by Wang Dan have arrived and were arranged by Yamamoto Tokiyuki to be busy in various tasks. The Tsuda family has also transported the 150,000 taels of silver to Sakamoto and Kyoto. Some days ago, due to the emergency redemption of Kira Yoshi,  The entry of silver caused a sharp rise in silver prices. After research and decision by Sakamoto Executive Office, Matsui Yuxian took this opportunity to reverse the operation and invested huge amounts of silver into the market multiple times to buy Yongle money that had fallen to the bottom.  In fact, this is not too complicated. After Kira Yoshitoki's advice, they quickly mastered the most primitive method of combating speculation. They invested silver in batches to buy Yongle money that was suppressed to extremely low prices. At that time, Kyoto and Sakamoto  The exchange rate is 1 guan of Yongle money for 2 taels of silver. Before that, 1 guan of Yongle money could be exchanged for 4 guan of Ju money. 1 Guan of Yongle money was equal to 1 tael of silver. This means that the value of Yongle money was artificially lowered.  Double, this was all caused by the turmoil caused by Kiragi's forced exchange of silver.  The group of merchants who hoarded rare silver made a fortune when the Kira family exchanged silver. They raised the price of silver so much that the Kira family's Yongle money had no place to use it. Matsui Yuxian had no choice but to grit his teeth and accept the suppression of high-priced silver.  Now this group of businessmen are arbitrarily suppressing the price of Yongle money and looking for opportunities to seize market dominance in Kyoto and Sakamoto.  Now the Kira family began to invest in silver again. They all thought this was a desperate countermeasure, so they each took out their Yongle money to buy silver. Then the Kira family continued to invest in silver, and they continued to eat.  Jin never realized that he had fallen into a huge trap.  On the first day, the Kira family invested 10,000 taels of silver, and it was sold out in less than half an hour. This gave the town residents the illusion that silver was very popular and Yongle money was not valuable. Then the next day, the Kira family invested 20,000 taels of silver.  , it was still sold out within an hour, and even the shadow of Sakamoto Zashou was found in the crowd. As expected, they still stood on the opposite side of the Kira family.  On the third day, the Kira family directly invested 30,000 taels of silver. This time, it took them an entire afternoon to get them all. The merchants already felt bad. The Kira family seemed to be pouring out endless silver. How could they?  They went to buy so much Yongle money, but they didn't want the money, so they had to grit their teeth and go to the money house to exchange Yongle money. In fact, all the Yongle money they exchanged were bought by the Kira family from them the day before. Even if they  Even though I know there are problems here, I can only grit my teeth and persevere.  The most dramatic thing is that on the fourth day, the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver. At that time, the group of businessmen were dumbfounded. Why did they still have so much silver?  No one was able to borrow money. The merchants in Sakai Town who used to come and go frequently closed their doors and thanked customers. They had no idea that these merchants had been warned by the Kira family and did not dare to lend them money. In the end, they could only hold the money in their hands.  Go to the Money House to exchange high-priced Yongle money with Silver.  So on the fifth day, when the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver, everyone understood what was going on. They had been fooled!  The ones who were playing tricks on them were the Kira family, which manipulated the exchange rate markets in Kyoto and Sakamoto. The money house had an official exchange ratio of 1 guan Yongle gold equal to 4 guan Ju gold equal to 4 taels of silver, but they had to use 1 guan Yongle gold to buy 3 taels of silver.  The price of taels of silver went crazy, and when he finally ran out of money, he took the silver to the money house and bought Yongle coins at the price of 4 taels of silver for 1 tael of Yongle coins He was being tricked inside and out.  As a result, the Kyoto and Sakamoto merchant alliance collapsed silently. Smart businessmen came to Sakamoto Castle in person to apologize, sold the silver they had hoarded to the Kira family at the official price, cut off their stocks and announced their withdrawal from this losing game, and some people  After losing his mind or not recognizing the fact, he still exchanged money desperately to buy silver, hoping to fight to the death with the Kira family.  On the sixth day, the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver. All the merchants who tried to resist collapsed. They could no longer exchange money to buy the silver on the market. The price of silver was unstoppably suppressed to the official exchange rate of the money house. They  The advantage that is maintained with great effort is like a child's sand castle that falls apart the moment the waves come.  Some people jumped directly into the Kamogawa River to commit suicide, and some hid in the courtyard of their own homes and hanged themselves. In these few days of gaming, the assets of the last group of people had shrunk to 30% of their original value, except for leaving a pile of  Gaining nothing but high-priced silver, Kira Yoshitoki relied on this small exchange rate war to not only gain market control in Kyoto and Sakamoto, but also make a profit of 30,000 kan Eiraku money. So far, the status of the money house in the two cities  No one could shake them, and the merchants from both places gave up their resistance and bowed their arrogant heads obediently.  The bricklayers, carpenters, and blacksmiths from the Ming Dynasty arrived.After that, good news was immediately brought to the Kira family. The first person to make a major discovery was a bricklayer from the Ming Dynasty. In late March, this bricklayer pointed out the caves on the hills at the northwest end of Sakamoto Castle Town.  A brick kiln was built next.  In late April, the first new town was built at the northern end of Sakamoto Castle Town. The town is completely made of tall houses built with a mixture of bricks and wooden structures. This bricklayer has obviously lived in Kyushu for many years and speaks fluent Kyushu-accented Japanese.  , after considering the problem of frequent earthquakes, he switched to a masonry structure for the outer layer, and still maintained the traditional craftsmanship of wooden beams and mortise and tenon for the interior to build a new type of house.  In comparison, carpenters and blacksmiths have much smaller areas of use. They mainly focus on the exchange of carpentry and ironmaking techniques. Japanese blacksmiths and carpenters still maintain the techniques of the Tang and Song Dynasties, while the techniques of the Ming Dynasty have become different from those of the previous ones.  The craftsmanship is completely different. After exchanges, the two parties each found out their own experiences. The craftsmanship of the Tang and Song Dynasties was a rare opportunity for the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to pursue ancient methods. The new craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty was also a rare opportunity for the Japanese craftsmen.  Learning opportunities.  The level of doctors in the Ming Dynasty was relatively average. Probably because Wang Dan was afraid of learning advanced medical skills, he only sent a middle-aged doctor who was less than forty years old. However, it was not too much of a problem to let him take care of a few children.  Several craftsmen made it clear that they would only stay for half a year, not one more day. I can teach you what I can teach you, but don't try to hold them back. ??????? Kirara Yoshishi readily agreed, what can he do by detaining a few craftsmen? He wanted these people purely to cover for the goldsmith. If they could learn the mother's money sanding method, there would be no problem for these people to return to Kitakyushu immediately.
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