"Why is that?" After all, Xiangzong and my pro-Thai people are ancient people, and they have no understanding of a series of novelties spawned by the mercantilist system brought by Yu Qiuping.

"This is for the sake of Changzong's family to repay the loan." Naturally, Sena would not reveal the thoughts of the merchants, "According to our investigation, it may take a long time to repay this military loan with Tosa's agricultural tax. The bosses of the Diet came up with this idea by opening workshops and factories in Tosa and recruiting locals to work in the countryside and other free time. The factory will pay them salaries, and the family can take taxes from the salaries and use these taxes to repay the loans. ”

"And such a good thing?" Xiangzong and my pro-Tai secretly admired in their hearts. Apparently not aware of the huge profits and business opportunities that these agreements would bring to merchants, they still considered it from the perspective of classical samurai.

"Is that all?" After reading these agreements, Xiangzong and my pro-Tai found that it had come to an end, and raised his head in surprise, "Don't you have any other requirements?" ”

"No, that's enough." After Sena Yoshiyoshi gestured to Yu Qiuping's eyes, Yu Qiuping nodded.

"This..."Xiangzong is a mature and sophisticated diplomat who can hide his emotions well. But at this moment, he almost didn't withdraw his stupid gaze.

The Yuqiu family took out a loan to buy equipment for themselves, and then went to their own place to open a workshop to create tax conditions for Changzong's family to repay the loan? Changzong's family, isn't this a vain gain? Is there such a good thing in the world?

Xiangzong and my relatives hurriedly turned out a list of that kind of equipment, with feet, spears, bows and arrows, and even iron cannons! Oh, my God...

He rushed to put out the fire and signed this series of agreements with Yu Qiuping, for fear that Yu Qiuping and the others would come to their senses and regret it. Yu Qiuping and the representatives of the merchants and craftsmen sitting behind him tried to restrain the smiles on the corners of their mouths, and watched expressionlessly as Xiangzong and his relatives signed and drew on each piece of paper.

He didn't know that this was equivalent to opening Tosa to merchants with zero tariffs. Compared with the huge profits and the vast market space, what are the meager taxes and loans of the Changzong family?

However, Xiangzong's pro-Thai department was very worried about whether the Yuqiu family's military industry department could produce the thousands of sets of equipment and countless weapons, ammunition, and feather arrows needed before the invasion of the Miyoshi family, but Yuqiuping said that this was not a problem at all.

If it was the military industry department in the past, it might be enough to choke. However, the current Department of Military Industry is still a behemoth. Because of the current military industry department, the Yuqiu family only controls 51% of the shares, and the rest of the shares are bought by businessmen - obviously no one wants to miss out on this most lucrative arms deal.

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The cause of the incident was last year's large-scale production activities. Due to the heavy losses of the Momiji Army in the Battle of Mikachi, which brought a large shortage of equipment, the Military Industry Division did not have enough raw materials for production. As a result, a new budget had to be submitted to Congress. However, at that time, Yu Qiuping happened to go abroad, and the Diet wanted to be tougher and take the opportunity to pass some bills to strengthen the Congress.

However, Kaede Imagawa, who stayed in charge, didn't eat this set at all. Like Yu Qiuping, she also has wisdom from the future. After weighing it again, she took a cross-era step - selling the Military Industry Division to the Mitsubishi Merchant Group. Because the Mitsubishi Merchant Group is actually the property of the Yuqiu family, the sale of the Military Industry Division to the Mitsubishi Merchant Group is actually just a name change, but in fact it is very different.

In the past, the operation mode of the Yuqiu Army was that Yuqiuping applied for a budget from the National Assembly, and used the approved budget to use the approved budget to the Military Industry Department to produce ordnance. But now, the Department of Military Industry works under the umbrella of the Mitsubishi Merchant Group. The Mitsubishi Merchant Group can provide sufficient raw materials and staff salaries to produce ordnance first. Yuqiu's family took out a loan to buy these ordnance, and then asked the Congress to approve a budget to repay the loan. This created the established fact that the production of ordnance had been completed, and Congress had no choice but to compromise.

However, this time, there are too many ordnance to be produced, and the Department of Military Industry is bound to expand, and the raw materials and salaries are not a small amount. Therefore, Yu Qiuping decided in a secret conversation with the businessman to sell 49% of the shares of the Military Industry Department to the businessman. All shareholders holding more than 5% of the shares have the right to participate in the shareholders' meeting of the production of the Military Industry Division, and will also enjoy the dividends of the profits of the Military Industry Division. The Yuqiu family obtained a controlling stake in the Military Industry Division through the Mitsubishi Caravan, and they can still talk and count. And the businessmen can also get a piece of the huge profits of the Military Industry Division, and everyone is happy.

However, there are still some people who are worried about whether there will be a danger of raising tigers by selling the sophisticated equipment of the Military Industry Division to Changzong's family. As a result, under the planning of Amano Jingde and others, the Military Industry Department, which has always been mainly engaged in production, started the processing business. They painted and repaired the old equipment, spears, and iron cannons that were eliminated by the Red Leaf Army, and sold them to the Nagazong family as new ones. The brand-new and advanced equipment produced by the Military Industry Department itself was equipped with the Yuqiu Army. A trade-in event is being carried out in the Red Leaf Army.

However, Xiangzong and my pro-Thai don't know this. With those contracts in hand, he excitedly ran back to Tosa to report to his brother about the great progress made in the negotiations. And Yu Qiuping, after obtaining Oda Nobunaga's permission for his little clever move, officially began the transaction with the Nagamune family.

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On April 10, 1574, Tosa Province, Shikoku Island, was located in Tooka Toyo Castle.

Nakamura was standing on the walls of Sannomaru, supervising the transport of a shipment of equipment and ordnance into Okatoyo Castle. This is the ninth batch in this month, and like the previous eight, it was all shipped by sea through Sakai Town's ships. They pretended to sail to the Kii waterway, but in fact they made a big circle away from the surveillance of the Awaji naval forces, and landed in Tosa Bay, where they sent a steady stream of equipment produced by the Military Industry Division.

Nakamura learned that after the military industry department completed a huge order for equipment, the idle skilled workers were temporarily leased by the bosses, so this ninth batch of equipment is also the last batch to support Tosa Province - the number must be enough, nearly 7,000 people, enough to make the ratio of Tosa Province's 10,000 army to 2:1. When fighting on home soil, such a ratio is not unavoidable.

Nakamura is a veteran of Tokiwabi, and one of the more than 200 slaves who followed Yuakihei all the way from Zhili Castle. Up to now, of the more than 200 old brothers back then, there are only 100 survivors. However, these people have basically become the backbone of Yuqiu's family. Those who are still in the Red Leaf Army have basically achieved the rank of captain and above, and they are the core strength of officers in the Red Leaf Army. And those who retire due to injury or because of old age, Yu Qiuping will ask for their opinions. Those who still want to stay in the military system will go to positions such as training instructors, logistics, and management; Those who want to retire will be placed in the positions of acting officials and judges, and now the core force in these systems is also composed of those old brothers. The businessmen in the Diet called this force the "Imagawa faction", and they regarded it as the most loyal and capable faction to Yuakihei. Although this name seems a bit bad, the old brothers are secretly proud to be a member of the "Imagawa faction".

Nakamura is a veteran who retired after the Battle of Mikachi, and he is a little older than Fukushima Yasunari, and he is no longer suitable for battle as a mid-level officer. However, many of the veterans who retired with him were sent to Tosa. However, their identity at the moment is not that of the Red Leaf Army, but that of military advisers hired by the congressional bosses. Although Oda Nobunaga agreed to Yuqiuhei's secret support for Chomune's family, he resolutely did not allow the Yuqiu family to participate in the war. Therefore, Nakamura Middlea and they were only able to enter Tosa in such a tactful capacity.

The businessmen of the Diet offered a large loan to the Nagamune family, but the prerequisite for the return on this investment was that the Nagamune family would defeat the Miyoshi family and defend Tosa. Therefore, the merchants of the Diet attached great importance to this battle, fearing that if the Yuan relatives of the Chozong and our tribe were defeated, their money would be wasted. Therefore, the congressional merchants hired many veterans to enter Tosa with the fleet, on the one hand, to teach the Nagamune army how to use the equipment, and on the other hand, to help the commander of the Nagasune family.

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At the same time, Sakai Town.

Akihei was standing on the hill next to Sakai Town, looking down on the landscape of Sakai Town. When he first met Sakai a few years ago, he was already amazed by the bustle of this port city. Today, Sakai is a far cry from what it used to be, and it's no exaggeration to say that it's one of Japan's most prosperous cities. Outside the existing castle town, a large circle of square factories has been built, which resembles rows and rows of building blocks. There are workshops that produce daily necessities, textiles, furniture, porcelain, and so on, and are lined up in a dense row around Sakai Town. On the periphery of these factories are temporary shelters for hired workers. Compared to the uniformly uniform factories, these makeshift shelters are far shabby, in the form of a haphazard body of rubble.

Many laborers from Hanoi, Izumi, and even live here, and many of them have been forced to leave their land because of the war. Over the past few decades, has been plagued by wars, and tens of thousands of displaced people have been displaced. Over the past few years, they are increasingly attracted to factories in Sakai Town. And there are others, the lords under the rule of the Yuqiu family, who will come here to work when the farm is not working, and go home to farm when the farm is busy. During the season when farming is not busy and farming is busy, there is a huge flow of people around Sakai Town like ants moving. Seeing a business opportunity, Imai Munehisa established a large transportation company to transport laborers by means of transportation such as horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and donkey carts.

And this prosperous light industry all started with a suggestion that Yu Qiuping inadvertently made a few years ago: the bosses have so much money, and it is good to run trade all day long, but why not try to open more factories yourself? Yu Qiuping had no idea at the time that his unintentional suggestion would actually increase the number of factories in Sakai Town several times in a few years. The bosses quickly tasted the sweetness of investing in factories, which brought benefits far beyond mere trade. The increase in the income of the bosses has also made the Yuqiu family obtain a huge amount of taxes, which is enough to support the large-scale expenses of the Yuqiu family in recent years.

Akihei Akihei gazed at the prosperous town of Sakai with some obsession, which is the charm of industry. Although they are still some labor-intensive light industry workshops, only using the assembly line technology introduced by Yu Qiuping, and there are no machines in later generations, but they still make Yu Qiuping see vigorous vitality.

"Your Highness doesn't think that those merchants are still docile mothers? Obediently stay in the hen's coop and lay eggs for the master. Amano Jingde, who was standing behind Yu Qiuping, looked at Yu Qiuping's intoxicated appearance and woke up in a cold voice, "They are not chickens, but eagles, birds of prey." They have only their eyes on profit, and they will attack desperately to do so. The reason why I didn't dare to disobey His Highness was because the wings of the young eagle had not yet grown hard. When their forces are formed, the Yuqiu family is afraid that they can only become their pawns, and His Highness has not prepared early? ”

"How can it be so exaggerated?" Yu Qiuping was slightly stunned, and glanced at Tianye Jingde in surprise. This is not because what Amano Keitoku said is sensational, but because he accurately predicted the outcome of the development of things.

"The parliament has only been established for a few years, and it has already begun to ask the military power of the Yuqiu family to seek their benefits. This time, it was only the plan of His Highness that coincided with theirs that it would go so smoothly. Next time, if the merchant's plan is contrary to His Highness's plan, how should His Highness choose? Let the Yuqiu family become the thugs of the merchants, and fight for their interests? ”