The period after being promoted to the general was a relatively comfortable time after Li Xiao traveled to the Warring States Period.

In the three months when he had an agreed duel with Shigang Yiyu, due to the pressure of having to live, Li Xiao got up early and honed his martial arts almost every day and all the time, and did not dare to slack off. Now there are still two months left before the West Ueno Raiders, and Li Xiao can easily get through this time.

It's a pity that as an ambitious traverser, Li Xiao still has a lot of big plans to complete, so he still can't be idle.

Now Li Xiaoyi's schedule is as follows, getting up at five o'clock every morning, and then either boiling up his strength and doing some training to enhance his physical strength, or fighting training with Shima Katsu and Shigang Kazuyu with wooden knives and wooden guns, so as to improve martial arts.

And Li Xiao's other samurai naturally had this opportunity to practice martial arts, and sometimes Li Xiao and Shima Shengmeng would also lead them to ride horses outside Takato Town to practice equestrianism, as well as riding archery.

After two hours of exercise, Li Xiao will return to his house, and at this time, Yuzhen Xiaohata, who is the cook of Li Xiao's family, will bring out a pot of steaming white rice porridge that has been cooked, and come to welcome Li Xiao back for dinner.

At this time, Li Xiao usually invites two bachelors, Dao Shengmeng and Shigang Yiyu, to eat at his home. In addition to these four people, Yumi Kohata and Yukiwamaru will also join, everyone drinks hot porridge, and then has a plate of dried radish, after eating this breakfast, the warm atmosphere is quite a family feeling.

After breakfast, the samurai continued their training, and Li Xiao had to ride a horse to Takato City, now as the third-ranked retainer under Takeda Katsuki, Li Xiao was not idle, and many military affairs had to be completed by him to assist Takeda Katsubi.

If it's okay to be free, Li Xiao took the time to teach and point out the marksmanship of Takeda Katsuki and the Baoke brothers, how can I say that he still has the name of the city lord's marksmanship, and at the same time, the Baoke brothers are still their own apprentices.

After a morning of hard work, Li Xiao officially went home from work for lunch and started his spare time. In the next free time, Li Xiao began to seriously study and plan his own money-making plan.

This is also something that can't be helped, there are so many rice worms in the house, and there are also the costs of repairing the house, Li Xiao originally saved a little, but he has spent almost it. What's more, in the future, Li Xiao will have to raise soldiers, warriors, horses, expand his own power, and grab food, money, land, and women, which will require a large amount of money to maintain his military expenses.

If Li Xiao still counted on the little dead salary in Takeda Katsuki's hand, then he didn't have to count on the goal of the Warring States Master at all

Fortunately, when Li Xiao was an elective in college, he listened to a half-tone marketing class, and he at least knew that before deciding to invest in that industry, he had to understand the local market.

So Li Xiao began to take the Xiaoba sisters and the Kowamaru together to go shopping in Takato Town to understand the local customs.

Takato Town, in terms of size and commercial circulation, as well as the number of people, is second only to Suwa and Komoro no Town in central Shinano. There is no way around it, as both towns are located on the main road of the Nakasendo and are connected to Koshu Street and Hokukoku Street, so there is a daily flow of people and business, so the business prosperity is naturally not bad.

Takato Town, however, is a relatively large town, and it has a certain history, and its main trade flow is from the direction of Mikawa, and every few days there will be caravans from Mikawa, kelp (kelp), seaweed, oysters, sardines, bonito, salt, and even seafood such as tatamari, which are sold at Takato Castle in the mountainous area.

The caravan then bought a little timber, charcoal, buckwheat, turnips, peaches, chestnuts and other mountain specialties from the local Zari, and transported them back to the coastal areas, and in this way they were used for commercial circulation. The Takeda family also collected tolls on the way according to the caravans, as part of the income of Takato Castle.

After walking out of the gate, Li Xiao and the Kohata sisters wandered out along the dirt road in the town.

Li Xiao and they came in turn to be the retainer Yashiki, the samurai Yashiki, the Ashigaru Yashiki, these are the accommodation places of the samurai Ashigaru of Takato Castle, and they are arranged from the inside to the outside according to their status, and the higher their status, the closer they live to the city.

After stepping out of the samurai ashigaru residential area, it is a towntown residential area and a temple. From time to time, ceremonies are held here, and the people of the nearby villages and towns gather here, just like the Chinese temple fairs.

The outermost layer of Takato Town is the residential area of merchant craftsmen. In the residential area of the merchant craftsmen, there is a monopoly and monopoly business, called a commercial and industrial business. Similar to the salt seat, the oil seat, the rice seat, the fish seat, the timber seat, the silk seat, and even the gold seat, the silver seat, these industries that are closely related to the daily needs of people's lives, are monopolized by the seat, and the monopoly is implemented.

Such organizations generally had close ties to the local daimyos, and if they did not have a good relationship with the daimyos, they could even fight against the daimyo by raising the prices of daily necessities such as rice and salt.

Therefore, it is basically impossible for Li Xiao to meddle in this kind of business, and even if Takeda Katsu takes these local trust organizations, there is not much way to do it.

Now Li Xiao is located in the most prosperous place in the business staff area of Takato Town, which is equivalent to the CBD central business district of Takato Town. Noise can be heard everywhere along the street, and there is the sound of light and heavy clanging iron from the forge house, and when you pass by the gambling house, you can hear the sound of shaking dice inside, and the sound of gamblers shouting.

The houses on the street here are all double-storey, with shops below and accommodation above. And the Xiaowan sisters couldn't hold back for a long time, and rushed into the Wu Fu House on the side, with bright eyes, and provoked Wu Fu.

Li Xiao smiled bitterly, he didn't have time to accompany a woman to buy clothes now, he was here to find out if there was a business opportunity that suited him. So Li Xiao and Xing Ruomaru went to the street stall to buy two strings of glutinous rice dumplings forked with bamboo skewers, and continued to wander along the street while eating the fragrant glutinous rice dumplings.

Along the way, the passers-by who came and went, including the barefoot ronin with a katana on his waist, the walking legs carrying a large box, the woman carrying a basket of buckwheat, and the townspeople returning home with tofu in a wooden basin containing water, the flow of people was quite good, and today is not a temple fair or market.

From the above, it can be concluded that Takato Town is not short of people with a certain purchasing power, and it is perfectly suitable for commercial activities.

Li Xiao remembered that he had heard the half-baked marketing class say that the industry closely related to making money is nothing more than the four major pieces of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Eating is undoubtedly in the first place, Li Xiao inspected the level of eating at that time in Gaoyuan Town, and found that the snack culture at that time was far less refined than that developed later. Because at this time, sugar was still a luxury for the people of this era, and only some merchants in Kai Town, as well as wealthy daimyos, had seen a little Nanban sugar cubes brought by the Portuguese and Dutch.

Because sugar was not popularized, famous snacks such as fried chestnuts and bean buns, which were later popularized, did not develop at this time. So at present, the most popular snacks in this book are fried rice cakes, glutinous rice dumplings, or only these two snacks.

Okay, so let me Li Xiao become the new food god who leads the food industry.

With this determination, Li Xiao confidently joined Yukimaru and called the Xiaowan sisters who were still addicted to the Wufu House to return to their homes, ready to sell them their fortune plans.