In the 14th year of Tenpo (1843), Naohide exclusively transferred the technology to Kinokuniya of Rihachi for a total of 1,000 taels of mahjong and small grinding sesame oil, and the payment method at that time was agreed to be three payments, with a down payment of 400 small judgments, 300 after one year, and the last 300 in the second year. But this is approaching the end of the year, and the second phase of the 300 small judgment has not been delivered, what happened to Kii Kuniya, and he ran away with his sister-in-law? I didn't hear the wind.

Naohide really had no money in his hands, and he couldn't afford to wait, so he had to go to Kinokuniya to collect debts. Rihachi's business is getting bigger and bigger, and Kinokuniya buys the shops in the neighborhood, although it can't catch up with the Wufu store Mitsui Echigoya, which occupies a whole street, but it is also called a big store in the neighborhood.

Kinokuniya was the first to sell oil and black sugar, but by the way, it also sold Japanese sweets and kara sweets. Later, Rihachi and Naohide hooked up, and Kinokuniya began to operate washboards, mahjong, small grinding sesame oil, thirteen-flavor Tang Xinzi, five-flavor Tang Xinzi and windmill mill "Powder House", relying on the washboard to become famous, relying on mahjong to get rich, relying on sundries to stabilize the foundation, and relying on the powder house to extend the vein.

Rihachi's work has risen, and his son-in-law has now succeeded his father-in-law as the "ruler" of Ki Kuniya. Naohide didn't find him at Rihachi's new mansion, so he had to run to the store to block him, and after the word was passed on, Rihachi personally went out to greet him.

As soon as he sat down, he apologized, it turned out that Liba listened to the advice of the franchise chain before Zhixiu, and this year's business expanded too fast, and as a result, he encountered common problems - talent shortage and cash flow constraints.

The shogunate franchise is powerful, and the business scope of the windmill construction franchise is a country and a county, and the shogunate is very reserved, the nobles are easy to talk to, the daimyo also look down on fame and fortune, and the wealthy merchants are not greedy.

First of all, the wealthy merchants of the shogunate's direct territory "Imperial Domain" heard the wind and moved, Kii Kuniya was still small and weak, and only got the windmill construction concession and business concession of Izu and Musashi Province, in fact, it was not small, and the two countries combined also had more than 900,000 stone of territory, which was the limit of the ability of the Oguri family and the Egawa family to work together - this was the result of taking advantage of everyone's failure to react and start early.

Although I don't know where the windmill is better than the watermill and how much benefit it has, but the red fruit row is done, this consciousness is shared by everyone, each wealthy merchant to find their own master, is it useful, first occupy the position and then say, because the craft is in the hands of Ki Kuniya, the imitation windmill it is not effective, so Kii Kuniya through the transfer of technology, this time ate a piece of cake, and the later wealthy merchants rarely got a country license, all of them were taken by one county and one county, and the shogunate was not a fool, from the center of Edo to the local governors and national officials, the county officer, everyone is waiting for the price to sell, everyone has to discuss this matter, right?

This year is the first year of Honghua (1844), windmills have not yet become popular, and in the next two or three years, the concession to build and operate windmills has caused a trend in the territories of the Imperial Domain, the Daimyo of the Pedigree, and the Daimyo of the Outer Daimyo due to the shortage of power at that time—the lack of hydraulic machinery and the small number of precious cattle in agriculture livestock.

In the late Edo period, the total stone height of agriculture was about 30 million koku, but the princes were not honest and there were too many people, and everyone made false reports and concealed reports, and the peasants were afraid that the reported stone would be higher and the land rent would increase with it, and the daimyo in various places were afraid that the stone would increase military service and various shogunate apportionments, so the total number of registered stone heights at this time was only more than 26 million stones.

In 1852, the Toyotomi government initiated the Taiko Land Inspection, which was 18 million koku in the entire Fuso area, and the Tokugawa Shogunate initiated the Keicho Land Acquisition in the Keicho to Motowa periods (1596-1623), and the table height at that time was more than 22 million koku, which was a unit of production, not an area unit, and the stone height was converted into the yield of rice.

In the early and middle Tokugawa shogunate, the imperial domain of the shogunate was 3.98 million koku, the kin-feudal clan had about 2.6 million koku, the daimyo of the Kodai had 6.7 million koku, and the outer daimyo had about 9.8 million koku.

The direct domain of the shogunate is called the Imperial Domain, and there are also those who call the Heavenly Domain, but nominally there is an emperor above the Shogunate, so the "Imperial Domain" is the official title, and the Heavenly Domain is the private name of the shogunate and the shogunate.

After that, the early shogunate tried every means to weaken the domains of the daimyo and retainers, and it was not until the time of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune (reigned 1716-1745) in the middle of the shogunate that the territory of the daimyo and the domain of the retainers was relatively stable - it was not that the shogunate did not want to do it, but the rebound was too great, and the unemployed samurai "ronin" in various places played "tenju", and the peasants played "Ichiku", and at that time, it caught up with the four major agricultural famines of the Edo period (1732), when more than a million people starved to death in all Fuso, The phenomenon of cannibalism is widespread, and everyone says that the Tokugawa shogunate ate jujube pills, and the shogunate at that time relied on charging additional tribute rice to the daimyo to stabilize, and then everyone felt that there was nothing to do with the race high, and the reduction of the seal or something should not be large-scale and often happen, usually drinking flower wine, hunting, and seeing if it was not fragrant.

Up to now, with the development of agricultural technology and the reclamation of swamps, land reclamation and mountain development, there are also some unlucky daimyo territories that have been reduced, and the stone height of the shogunate's imperial domain has reached about 6.8 million koku, of which about 2.6 million koku is the territory of the banner, but most of the banner capital land is also managed by the shogunate's acting officials - the banner capital rice is over.

The Ishitaka of the Shogunate Imperial Domain has increased, and the Ishitaka of the Daimyo Domains of the Kin-Domain and the Daimyo of the Spectrum Dynasty has also increased, but the Ishitaka of the Daimyo Domain has grown even faster, why?

About 75% of Fuso is mountainous and hilly, with few intermountain basins and plains, the largest plain being the Kanto Plain near Edo, with an area of about 13,000 km², and other larger plains including the Nobi Plain, the Plain near Osaka and Kyoto, the Sendai Plain in northeastern Honshu, and the Ishikari Plain in western Ezo Tsuchi.

The Ishikari Plain has not yet been developed, and the Sendai Plain belongs to the Sendai Date family, and the remaining large plains and small plains with high production are occupied by the shogunate, the feudal clans, and the daimyo of the pedigree, and many of the territories of the daimyo are mountainous ridges or swamps—there is a lot of potential for development.

With the unremitting efforts of more than 200 years, the development of the domain of the daimyo has risen, and the daimyo of the outer daimyo has desperately developed the local specialty "domestic" for the sake of life - only the development of domestic production can barely live like this, at this time, according to the actual stone high calculation, the share of the daimyo has increased from 40% in the early days to 56% now, and by the end of the Edo period, Kyushu Island, The smuggling of foreign daimyo in Choshu became popular, and some people say that the power ratio between the foreign daimyo and the shogunate has reached 7 to 3 - of course, this data is debatable, but the power of the foreign daimyo continues to expand is certain, not to mention that most of the merchants who occupied an important position in the economic map were separated from the shogunate in the later period, and naturally the shogunate's control declined.

At this time, most of the wealthy merchants were begging for a living in the shogunate, and Kinokuniya was one of the rising stars. Kii Kuniya, which owns windmill construction concessions and business concessions in Izu and Musashi Kuni, is now finding itself facing a serious shortage of manpower, capital, and connections.

During the Edo period, apprentices were generally trained by the merchants themselves, and children around the age of 10 were recruited into the shop to study, and then they became the backbone of the apprenticeship through the experience of "dingzhi" (young man), "teyo" (foreman), and "bantou" (shopkeeper). The accumulation of manpower in the early stage of Kinokuniya can't catch up with the soaring of Rihachi, and one of the temporarily recruited guys is not at ease, and the other can't recruit much.

In addition, the production capacity of windmills is one thing, and cash is also facing difficulties - although the cash flow of groceries, especially mahjong, is very good, but the production of groceries is also expanding, and real money is not as much.

At the same time, the lack of cooperation of the local snakes in various places is also a headache, and the current officials are not as good as the current management, even if the county commissions give face to the Xiaoli family and the Jiangchuan family, the people below, especially the rural lands and village houses, do not want to fight one by one.

Rihachi is also a fierce man, he has heard of the play of Naoxiu's franchise chain stores, he directly and with businessmen from all over the country and rural lands and village houses to engage in joint development, Kii Kuniya out of technology, land snake out of capital, manpower, land, anyway, the concession is for a limited time, let's do it first. Through bulk procurement, Rihachi began to enter the field of rice merchants, and after controlling a part of the market and circulation, Kinokuniya's control over the land snake was greatly enhanced.

In the twilight of the year, from the twentieth month of the twentieth month to the end of the year, merchants and local snakes from all over the country visited the backers in Edo, and they had to go to Liba to take a trip and pull feelings. In the past, before the New Year, Li Ba was a mountain worship everywhere, but this time he is also a mountain that is not too big or small - at least he has become a mountain among merchants.

Fusang didn't shake hands, Li Ba bowed every day, his waist was already gone, his mouth was worn out, and he was swollen when he drank tea.

Liba really remembers the matter of the 300 gold judgment, he is now also a henchman of the Oguri family, and he heard that Naohide was promoted to the flag, so he was ready to visit Naohide in person to show his attention, but he didn't expect that there were so many guests this year, and he was delayed - he didn't even finish the inventory a year ago.

dragged to the twenty-sixth of the wax month, I didn't expect Naoxiu to come directly to the door, Liba hurriedly welcomed Naoxiu in, originally he was now a wealthy businessman and backed by two big body flags, I wanted to shake it, but I didn't expect Naoxiu to fly on the branches, no matter what the flag was, even if the general was directly under him, his identity was faintly pressed on him.

Li Ba is familiar with Naoshi's temperament, this new flag is also a character who regards money as dung - that is, he sees dung as more important than anything else, he quickly took out the golden ticket and paid the account, completely taking Naoxiu's "not in a hurry" statement as a fart, and he can run to me in person if he is not in a hurry?

"I have a new product on the market", Zhixiu saw that Liba was a little absent-minded, so he gave Liba an arch fire.

"New product~", Liba is uncomfortable with cat scratching in his heart, and now he is really busy. He knew that Naohide supported Kanta of the Celebration House to do business, and salted herring roe, peanut butter, potato chips, and French fries were popular all over Edo, and although there were many imitations, the name of the Celebration House was also established. The small business Li Ba is a little unattractive now, food, clothing, housing and transportation, Li Ba is now about to have the status of a rice merchant and a big powder merchant, but he is afraid that Naoxiu will really take out a big killer like a windmill to throw him away, and besides, mahjong and other groceries are very profitable, he is reluctant to let go, in short, the mood is very responsible.

Naoxiu didn't dare to step too fast to get the egg, he just wanted to maintain the relationship with Rihachi, the last time the salted herring roe and so on didn't cooperate with Rihachi, but there were windmills, thirteen-flavor Tang Xinzi, and five-flavor Tang Xinzi to share the profits to Kii Kuniya, and the bulk was still Liba's. But this time, the jam, gummies and jelly were directly given to the happy event, and Liba didn't have anything, and Naoxiu was afraid that he would have an idea.

Liba listened to Naoxiu's introduction, and breathed a sigh of relief, a little lost, one is that jam, gummies and jelly are obviously new products with huge profits, but the happy event Heavy House imported sugar from Kii Kuniya, which can be regarded as a profit share, and he has a new idea recently, a small meaning, and he can't take care of it.

After Liba's business became bigger, the capital could not be opened, so his latest plan was to enter the current financial industry "two substitutes".

The "two substitute merchants" are mainly engaged in the exchange of gold, silver and copper coins, and are divided into "two substitutions" and "two substitutions", the former is larger in scale and can operate the money bill exchange business, and the latter is small in scale and only does currency exchange.

Although the Tokugawa shogunate unified the currency, in order to increase revenue, the shogunate often produced various inferior coins, and issued a wide variety of gold, silver, and copper coins, which were very troublesome to convert, and the exchange ratio often changed, so the two merchants came into being.

Let's say that the gold and copper goods that are popular in Edo, not to mention the exchange between various currencies, the exchange of gold coins and copper coins alone will worry about the individual, how many copper coins are exchanged for a small judgment, although the official has a guide price, but the people do not recognize it at all, one is that the gold content of various small judgments is different, and the gold content of the same small judgment in different periods may also be different. In addition, Edo, as the head of the three capitals at this time, had a large number of copper coins used by the private sector, resulting in the ratio of small judgments to copper coins changing every day.

Of course, in addition to coveting the huge profits of the two merchants, he also wants to do the business of money bill exchange and use other people's money to do his own business, what a gratifying thing!

Don't say it, the Trinity consortium model of Fuso in later generations was invented by Liba. In another world, Rihachi became the chief treasurer of Mitsui Valve, who invented the simple and crude financial model of lending, and developed trading companies and factories with banks as the core, tightly tying industry, commerce, and finance together.

How can it be said that Lihachi invented the consortium model, and the current Mitsui valve also has a "Wufu store" with a textile factory and a sales store? This is because Liba goes further, in the future under the leadership of Liba, Mitsui valve has a large number of shares - not a holding affiliate, the general shareholding ranges from one to three percent, in addition to the core enterprises do not pursue absolute control, industry, business and financial capital are highly integrated, under the consortium model, these shareholding enterprises jointly rely on the scale to form a raw material monopoly, market monopoly and capital advantages, the folk call "Fusang's consortium, Fusang's consortium", which means that all the consortiums unite to control all economic fields of Fusang.

At that time, Liba was known as the "ancestor of Mitsui Zhongxing", and there were not too many titles such as the god of management, of course, the deceased Liba couldn't hear it, but it was so glorious that it could be regarded as a name in history - and this was something that Rihachi, a businessman who was still very low at this time, could not have imagined anyway.