Nobunaga's reply was still fast. He chose one of the twenty pieces of silver and sent it back with Goto Yashiki's large sentence. Niwa Nagahide and I looked at the Ding silver, and there was no signature on the front, but a large black statue was cast in the center, and the edge was marked with the word "Chang Is".

"Who minted this piece of silver?" Niwa Nagahide took Nobunaga's chosen Ding silver and asked the twenty Ginza servants.

A servant in his forties stepped forward and knelt down to Niwa Nagahide: "Lord Yu, it was cast by the villain Yuasa Sakubei. ”

"Really?" Niwa Nagahide continued to ask, "So, why don't you keep the money?" ”

"My lord, the villain thinks that the matter of casting Ding Yin requires the joint efforts of all the craftsmen here, so as a sample, it is not suitable to leave his own name." Yuasa replied respectfully.

"Hmm...... What you say makes a lot of sense," Niwa Nagahide nodded, "So, what does it mean to cast a big black statue?" ”

"That's right, the villain is a believer in the Lotus Sect, and he saw the big black sky enshrined in the temple before, and after he went back, he got up and cast it on Ding Yin......"

"You have a heart!" I smiled approvingly. In addition to being the protector of the Lotus sect, Daikokuten is also the god of wealth and fortune among the seven gods of good fortune, which is in line with Nobunaga's own beliefs and the original intention of the establishment of Ginza. Coupled with his wise move of not leaving a name, it was naturally easy to gain Nobunaga's favor.

"Yes. Thank you, Mr. Xie! Yuasa Sakubei kowtowed happily and said.

Niwa Nagahide looked at me with an inquiring look, and I nodded slightly in agreement.

"Yuasa as a soldier!" Niwa Nagahide called.

"The villain is here!"

"From today onwards, you will be a samurai directly under the Oda family, and you will temporarily serve as the head of the Ginza office...... In addition, since you have such a mind, it is good to change the Miao character to Da Hei and name Chang in the future! ”

"Yes!" Yuasa Sakubei lay flat on the ground, "Villain...... Subordinates receive orders! ”

"Get up," Niwa Nagahide nodded, and instructed everyone, "I hope that you will do your work with sincerity, and if you can establish merit, it will not be difficult to obtain the status of a samurai and the corresponding knowledge and deeds." ”

"Yes. The villain must do his best. The servants replied one after another, and the atmosphere in the office was very warm for a while...... Walking out of the Ginza office, I smiled and sighed to Niwa Nagahide, "Really, it's been three months in a flash." ”

"yes!" Niwa Nagahide also breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, things have finally come to an end, and I have lived up to the expectations of my lord." ”

"Next, we only need to increase the exchange of silver goods in the money writing house, and we can almost stay on the main bus......" I couldn't help but frown at this.

To be honest, I don't like silver, and the purity identification is too troublesome! Moreover, the Iwami, Ikuno, Tsushima, Inaba and other major silver mountains are basically in Kansai, especially the Iwami Silver Mountain, the current output of the world's one-third, the supply of seventy percent of the silver, for a long time, this silver mine belongs to the Oda family and the Oda family long-term hostile to the Mori family, if the silver circulation is encouraged, while promoting the development of commerce, but also strengthen the strength of the blood transfusion from the Kinai to the Mori family, it is very unfavorable for the future Sanin Sanyo strategy.

However, you can't stop eating because of choking, and Nobunaga is right about this. The previous decree regulating money caused inconvenience, and he did not simply and rudely repeal it, but asked me to solve it with Niwa Nagahide, otherwise there would be no current gold, silver, and daisōza - those should have appeared more than ten or twenty years later.

Obviously, the money writing order that I proposed in advance in the second year of Eiroku and the courage to innovate Nobunaga greatly accelerated the process of reforming the financial system.

After thinking about it, I took the figures from the beginning of the Edo period and set the exchange rate for gold, silver, and yongraku coins at the level of 1 tael of gold for 40 taels of silver or 1 kan of yongraku coins. At that time, the silver mountain of Benben was fully developed, the supply of silver was extremely sufficient, and a large number of exports were made to foreign countries (mainly China), so this exchange rate was adopted. It has not yet reached that level, and if this ratio is adopted, it will already be a kind of suppression for the Maori family.

The monetary unit of this era had two systems of measurement. One is in the period of Dahua Innovation, with the Kaiyuan Tongbao and other money from China, the smallest unit is called "匁", is the cursive script of the word "Quan", through the Chinese word "money", is the weight of a copper coin, about 3.75 grams. Above the "匁" is the "two", and then the "jin" and "guan", 1 guan is equal to 6.25 catties, 1 jin is equal to 16 taels, and 1 tael is equal to 10 taels, so 1 guan is equal to 1000 catties, which is 3.75 kilograms in the metric system.

This unit is used not only for silver and copper, but also for other aspects as a gravimetric measurement system, but the benchmark varies from place to place. For example, my benchmark is to use 64 high-quality Yongle coins as a fundraiser, and use the balance bichotomy method to select the Yongle coin with the most central quality, according to the Yongle coin measurement statistics of later generations, its mass should be slightly less than 3.8 grams, which is very close to the standard of 3.75 grams.

There is also a measuring system, which was developed in the local area, and was originally used for medicinal herbs, and later also for the measurement of gold and silver. This set of units adopts the quadruple system, the highest unit is "two", 1 tael is equal to 4 points, 1 point is equal to 4 Zhu, 1 Zhu is equal to 4 Itome, the earliest person to systematically adopt this set of units, is Kai's Takeda Shingen, he mined Koshu gold, all take this set of measurement methods, and wait until Tokugawa Ieyasu takes the world, because of the admiration for Shingen, he inherited it all.

However, the exchange rate between the "taels" of gold and silver and the "匁" of silver and copper is also inconsistent in different places. The ratio in Kyoto is called Kyome, and in previous years it was 1 tael equal to 4.5, but now it is 1 to 4.4. The ratios in the rest of the places are collectively referred to as the Tasha Me, for example, in Shingen, which is a ratio of 1 to 4. The ratio in Kansai is 1 to 4.3, which is also the ratio of Iwami silver, and since silver can be measured in two ways at the same time, 1 tael of silver can be 4.3 or 10 匁, which can easily cause confusion if not specifically stated, and a funny Noh play from the Edo period depicts someone being slaughtered on Yanliu Street in Kyoto.

In order to prevent this situation, I have specially stipulated that the unit of silver goods is fixed to use the two systems, with one tael of silver equal to 10 taels (37.5 grams), while gold goods are still under the two zhu system, and one tael of gold is equal to 4.4 taels (16.5 grams).

At the same time, I took advantage of this opportunity to implement the "ruler law" in the whole collar, which unified the provisions of weights and measures such as distance, floor area, volume, and mass, and unified the weights and measures with different standards in various places in the form of official mandatory orders, so as to facilitate the use and adjudication of the whole collar.

This decree was first enacted in Mie Town to regulate the buying and selling transactions of the townspeople, so I have kept a set of standard weights and measures as a standard for the production and execution of the town's kanzaya and scale houses, and if there is a dispute between the townspeople, they can be arbitrated through the moneyhouse, and the unreasonable party will pay the arbitration fee and pay additional compensation to the other party. Later, this decree was extended to all my domains, from the county towns to the offices and money houses, and I was able to divide the Zhixing, the lords of the province and collect the annual tribute, and the townspeople were able to buy and sell according to these standards.

With existing arbitration standards, it is natural that there should be corresponding arbitration provisions. For this reason, I threw out the "City Change Law" and asked Nobunaga to approve the implementation of the Oda Family Castle Act in my capacity as the general secretary of the Oda family. The predecessor of this ordinance was the "Kiraya Ichi Twenty-one Shojo" that I implemented in Mie Town, and after seven or eight years of implementation, some revisions and additions have been made one after another, and it is now very perfect.

These two decrees can be said to be a good embodiment of the spirit of open and fair administration of the Kira family. If there is a dispute, regardless of the status of the parties, it must be adjudicated in accordance with the Law of the Ruler and the Law of the City...... There was once a certain shopkeeper of Tsuya who bought grain from the people with a big rise, intending to expand profits and flatter me as the master behind the scenes. As a result, the people became suspicious and submitted to the enforcement office for review, and then the shopkeeper was immediately investigated and punished.

To be able to gain the current credibility and prestige in the realm, my Kira family does not rely on wealth and family name, nor is it just a strong military force and amazing achievements.

Of course, I know that Nobunaga will not accept the "Municipal Law" in its entirety. With his surname, he would not be willing to be restricted by any decree, and those provisions that infringed on the supreme authority of the lord over the lords and the townspeople would probably be cut down by him! But the normative surname provisions, including another "ruler law", should not be rejected by him. For me, this is a very good result, my own Tsuya and the rest of the merchants have become accustomed to and used these two decrees, compared to the rest of the Oda family, our measurement is more accurate, our operation is more efficient, and we will have a great advantage in competition.

Just a few small details, the rest of the people have to adapt so easily. For example, regarding the unit of volume, in addition to the stone, bucket, liter, and he, there is another unit in this era, "俵", which is one of the important volume units for merchants' transportation, storage and trading. However, there is no unified standard for how many buckets and how many liters are in various places, and even the families of the daimyo and the lords themselves cannot be consistent. However, in my ruler law, I specifically stipulate the conversion ratio of 1 tael equal to 4 buckets, and promulgate provisions in the market law to make it mandatory for all agricultural products such as rice and soybeans to be packaged in uniform specifications to facilitate transactions. I also strictly follow the regulations for storing grain in my own home, and the amount of rice per tazen is about the same (according to modern estimates of the Edo period, it is about 74 liters, and with a bulk density of 0.8 rice, it is about 60 kilograms, so 1 stone of rice is 150 kilograms), so it is convenient to distribute support rice and service allowances to the samurai at home.

Similarly, the tsubo, a small unit that I created myself, was used to calculate the area of the homestead and to collect the property transaction tax in the town. One tsubo is the area of a tatami mat, which is equal to one-thirtieth of a mussel, which is equivalent to about 3.3 square meters in modern times. Compared to the units used to measure the area of the field in the towns (9,917 square meters), dan (991.7 square meters), and 畝 (99.17 square meters), it is obviously much more convenient to use this unit to calculate the area of the homestead land, and Nobunaga will definitely like it...... Of course, the tatami mat that is used as a standard is made by a merchant affiliated with my family, Tsuya. After the decree was passed, other tatami merchants wanted to mix better and make their products more popular, so they simply copied the standards I set and drastically changed their own craftsmanship.

This may be unfair, but absolute fairness is impossible, let alone in this era, even in modern times. The starting point for my enactment of laws and regulations is only the two principles of openness and fairness, and then I formulate corresponding rules on the basis of these two principles, and make reasonable use of the rules.

……，…… At the beginning of July, Nobunaga led more than 30,000 troops from Owari and Mino into Beijing and held a ceremony for his son-in-law, Wonder Maru. Subsequently, he issued a crusade order, preparing to join up with Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Hiroshi Hiroshi of Omi to completely destroy the Asai family in Kita-Omi.

This was the first battle of the young lord of the Oda family. Nobunaga himself assumed the post of commander-in-chief, appointed Nobutada, who had been in the Tsuyotofu, as his lieutenant, and ended my and Niwa Nagahide's duties as commander-in-chief. As in the last Kanesaki War, I served as the military commissioner of the Great Army; Niwa Nagahide returned to Wakasa Province and marched to Takashima with Wakasa led by Takeda Nobutaka as a prison army to join Isono Hitomasa to threaten the northwest of the Asai family. Kitabatake Nobuo also led the people of Ise Province into battle, and the one who served as the supervisor was Maeda Toshiie, Sawaki Yoshiyuki, and Ikoma's parents transferred to Awa, and took over Takigawa Kazuki of Ise Amaki Prefecture.

At the beginning of last year, due to the surrender of Isono Yuanchang of Sawa Yamashiro, Takigawa Kazuki ended his tenure as Inougami County and was temporarily idle. When it came to the Nagashima Expedition, he performed very well as the deputy general of Shibata Katsuie, and instead of the seriously injured Shibata Katsuie, he led the Mino people to successfully withdraw from the siege of Ichijomune; On the 6th of June, when the fourth abbot of Nagashima Temple went to Kuwana County to inspect the burned place, Takigawa Kazuki led the ninjas to kill him with an iron cannon. With these two merits and the previous merits of Isono Yuanmasa, Nobunaga gave him an additional 25,000 koku of territory, from 35,000 koku in Mino Haguri Prefecture to 60,000 koku in Ise Amaki and Kawakoto Prefecture, and served as the supervisor of Kitabatake Nobuo. At the same time, there was also Yura Hideyoshi, who was increased from the original 15,000 stone to 25,000 stone in the Hanguri-gun, and still served as the county representative of Sakata County, stationed in Yokoyama Castle to resist the Asai family.

The four [***] were bound to merge with the southern Omi and Yamashiro provinces, with a total number of 60,000 people, and they pressed towards the northern Omi River, and soon surrounded the Kotani Castle of Asai Nagamasa.

(To be continued)