After arranging the garrison of the lower city, as well as the training of the new army.

Li Xiao did not say that he would lead Kamioka to return to Kamioka City, and then Li Xiao and Honda Masanobu, Shigang Ichiyu and the two led the mothers to return to their homes.

Kamioka Castle is garrisoned by Shima Katsuto, Ozo Chang'an, and Kamioka Bei, who lacks an iron artillery team, plus the strength of the Eima family, this strength should be enough to deter the sister of the Hida country, the Uchijima family.

At present, the sister Koji family and the Uchijima family have not yet recovered from the battle with Sakurato Castle.

At the beginning, in order to deal with the Takeda family's Hida expeditionary army, the two families almost mobilized with all their might, and almost all the men who could afford weapons in the collar were mobilized, and only then did they gather more than 2,000 troops.

In the past month or so of the confrontation between the two armies, the agriculture of these two families in their territory has been greatly affected, although the climate in Hida this year is not bad, but the final result is that when the autumn harvest comes, their territory is still poor.

According to the intelligence collected by Li Xiao's ninjas in the territory of the other party, it is expected that by next year, there will be a certain degree of famine among the people in the territory of the two countries.

However, compared to the situation of the sister Xiaolu family, the Uchijima family will be a little better, and the Uchijima family has the support of Jinshan in the territory, and then it can barely be said.

But Li Xiao must also take precautions against the two ambitious wolves lurking in Hida.

This year can still be maintained, but next year, the year after that, if the sister Xiaolu family and the Uchijima family really recover, and Li Xiao launches a strategy against Yuezhong, Hida's Kamioka Castle will inevitably be empty.

It would be terrible if these two families were to pull themselves behind their backs at this time.

This time, Li Xiao sent troops to the city, and the sister Xiaolu family was invited by the Saito family to make a small mobilization in the territory, gathered troops near Jiangma's house, and put on a posture to attack.

In the end, Jiangma Huisheng's reinforcements could not come to reinforce Kamioka Castle, and in the end, fortunately, Li Xiao's Kamioka Bei showed great power and defeated the combined army of Saito Jimbo, which was twice as large as his own, otherwise Kamiokanda Castle would have fallen now, and Li Xiao would have become a lost dog.

After the war, his sister Koji Yoshiyori also wrote a letter to explain to Li Xiao, saying that he was very worried about the news of the Saito family's invasion, so he led his troops to Kamioka Castle to help, and asked Li Xiao not to misunderstand.

After reading this letter, Li Xiao felt that it was dirty to wipe his ass with this letter, who would believe this kind of nonsense.

However, this made Li Xiao even more jealous of this Hida national hero who had been dormant in Hida, but had always been unwilling, and his sister Xiaolu Lianglai was even more jealous.

You can't wait here until someone else recovers and then does something to you.

Therefore, Li Xiao must strike first, take the first step, and weaken these two.

Now the attack in the clear sense is not good, after all, the other party has nominally subdued the Takeda family, and Li Xiao can't come up with evidence for the last time he sent troops to the Jiangma family.

Therefore, Li Xiao can only use other means to play with his sister Xiaolu.

Li Xiao looked at Shioya Qiuzhen and said, "Lord Chikuzen Mamoru, I have decided to implement the decree of monopoly on salt and grain in the town of Shiyobu from next month, and the monopoly in the town of Kamioka. ”

The implementation of salt and grain monopoly means that the original treasury Chang'an proposed to himself that all salt goods entering Hida Country could only be bought and sold in Kamiokan-no-cho.

But right now, Li Xiao occupies Chengsheng City, and Chengsheng Town was originally Hida's material trade center, so he chose Chengsheng Town to implement exclusive purchases.

In Kamiokan-no-cho, a monopoly is practiced.

The specific content of the decree is that all salt goods sold by merchants must be kept in the castle, and they are not allowed to be traded in other parts of Hida.

And this transaction can only be carried out by Li Xiao's salt house merchant who has a 30% stake, and then the salt house merchant will buy salt goods and grain, and transfer it to Kamioka no Town for sale.

This move is tantamount to Li Xiao's forcible monopoly on all the salt and grain trade that is transported from Chengshengcheng to Hida.

If you want to buy salt and food, the only way to buy salt and food is from Kamioka Town, a salt house company designated by Li Xiao.

With salt and food in the hands of the two important military and people's livelihood materials, from now on, Sister Xiaolu Lianglai, the two of them will have to look at Li Xiao's face.

The price of all salt and grain is, of course, decided by the royal merchants controlled by Li Xiao, the salt house merchants, if Li Xiao wants to raise the price, these two can only endure it silently.

And Li Xiao's plan is to raise the price of grain and salt by two percent.

It was to use this move to let the sister Xiaolu family and the Inner Island family come to Li Xiao with more real money to buy it, so as to weaken the economy of their territory.

And then the speed at which they regained their strength, a little slower.

When Shioya Qiuzhen heard Li Xiao's decision, he was overjoyed, this was simply a huge profit for him, a monopoly within a monopoly, and a trust within a trust.

This move is equivalent to Li Xiao purchasing grain and salt from Vietnam and China, and the trade sold to Hida is handed over to Shioya Qiuzhen alone.

Shioya Qiuzhen originally had only one salt monopoly, but now there is another choice of food.

Yanwu Qiuzhen began to feel that following Li Xiao's decision was a promising and well-known choice, so what was the thirty percent of the shares, according to this move, Yanwu's surplus next year could reach 8,000.

Yanya Qiuzhen looked at Li Xiao almost with tears in her eyes now, and then sent out a rich and mellow sycophant, and said, "But Lord Ma Shou, this move is ...... It's high, it's high, it's high! Wise, really wise, really wise! ”

Li Xiao was slightly stunned, he had the impression that people in the Warring States period were quite upright, and it was really not easy to hear such a cheeky flattery as Shioriya Qiuzhen.

Then Li Xiao said again: "Yanwu Zhuqian Shou, don't be happy too early, I still have a second decree that has not been announced, this is not good news for you." ”

Shioya Qiuzhen was stunned for a moment, and immediately showed that she was listening carefully.

Li Xiao looked at the Great Treasury Chang'an and said, "This decree was made by you, so it's up to you to explain it to the retainers and Lord Yanya." ”

Dazo Chang'an sighed, turned around, and said loudly: "This decree is to decide that all merchants who come to the castle town to trade will not be subject to a transit tax, but only a "gold medal", that is, a transaction tax. All merchants are allowed to come, and the towns of Ijo Ibu and Kamioka are allowed to trade and sell, and they are treated equally, and all the exclusive sales rights and non-taxation rights that were previously given to each merchant will be abolished. ”

As soon as the Great Treasurer Chang'an finished saying this decree, Yanwu Qiuzhen was a little confused, and he hurriedly asked Li Xiao: "May I ask if even our Yanwu is the same?" ”

"Yes. And it's not just salt and grain, and this decree treats all merchants equally. Li Xiao gave Shioya Qiuzhen a clear answer.

After a pause, Li Xiao said in a deep voice: "And this second decree, I call him the Lezuo Le City. ”

That's right, Li Xiao practiced the Rakushi Leza that later Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Tokugawa shogunate all went all the way.

The term Leshi Lezuo is just a collective name, but it is actually composed of two decrees, one is Leshi and the other is Leza.

But whether it is Leshi Lezuo, their final purpose is the same.

That is, to abolish the monopoly trading rights of the merchants in this era, let the market economy enter the role of commercial circulation, and finally achieve the goal of banning such industry chambers of commerce.

The merchants of this era enjoy certain privileges because they have the support of the local land and the famous lord behind them.

This privilege includes 'exclusive right to sell, non-tax, and non-entry'.

Among them, the monopoly of the right to sell is to sell a certain local commodity exclusively, and no businessman who is not a powerful merchant is allowed to interfere in the local business.

The right to be taxable is to negotiate with the local daimyo to exempt some or all of the goods from taxes.

If you don't have the right to enter the right, it is a local daimyo, and without the permission of the merchant, you are not allowed to forcibly requisition goods for use.

It is precisely because of these exemptions that the merchants are able to dominate this market.

At this time, suppose there is a merchant who does not have a deep relationship with the local daimyo, for example, if he sells a cart of oranges to Kamioka no Machi, and the intermediate transit tax and other heavy taxes are enough to pay you to death.

Even if you have a lot of money and plan to compete with the local orange sellers to fight a price war, the other party will rush over and beat you half to death, and finally confiscate all the oranges.

If you want to sue someone, you have nowhere to complain, there is no way, there is someone above them.

In this way, it is said that this Warring States is equal to every place, and there are merchants in every place.

How can such a small businessman with no background talk about the competitiveness of the businessman.

After monopolizing the local economy, the merchants can set their own prices and operate trusts behind closed doors.

In the words of the book, the existence of the merchants is an obstacle to the progress of the productive forces.

Li Xiao's decision is to abolish the monopoly of the sales rights and non-taxation rights of the salt house merchants, so that they can have the same competitiveness as other merchants.

In other words, taking salt goods as an example, this move is equivalent to allowing various merchants to transport salt goods from Echichung and sell grain to the town of Josei, which was abolished on this section of the route, and the monopoly of the original salt house merchants was removed.

Not only salt and grain, but each merchant can sell his own goods in the castle no town, and whoever has the lowest price will buy it.

Unlike in the past, only fixed merchants were allowed to sell their goods in Josei-no-cho, and there was a monopoly on goods and prices.

At the same time, the benefits of not collecting a transit tax, but only a transaction tax, are manifested.

If there is a transaction, it means that income is generated, and the merchant can only be taxed on the premise of making money, and if he does not make money, the merchant can still pull the goods to other places to buy, but there is no need to consider the process of entry and exit, and the trouble of collecting two taxes.

This increases the prosperity of the town, but any merchant who has some confidence in his goods can try his luck by transporting goods to the town, and no transit tax is charged anyway, and no money is charged if there is no transaction.

In this way, more merchants will be attracted to sell their goods in Jobu Castle, and even if they don't plan to sell their goods in Jobu Castle, they can store their goods in Josei-no-cho and Kamioka Town, which can be used as a hub for logistics transit.

As the flow of people increases, the town will become a logistics distribution center for Hida and Koshichu, which will stimulate the prosperity of the town and increase the number of transactions.

In this way, Li Xiao can continue to make a lot of money from the transaction tax and use it to riot the army.

Shioya Qiuzhen thought about it for a while, Li Xiao's measure made him lose the exclusive privilege of selling salt from Toyama no Town to Josei-no-Machi, but from Josei-no-jo to Kamioka-no-cho, the exclusive right to sell salt and grain still exists in this section of the territory.

In this way, their own salt house merchants can still increase their surplus compared to before.

Besides, now that the important trade routes of Yanwu Qiuzhen are in the hands of Li Xiao, he can make the Yanwu merchants go bankrupt with a word, what ability can he have to resist Li Xiao.

Of course, he also believes that Li Xiao will secretly favor the salt house merchants in policy for the sake of his 30% stake in the salt house business.

In the end, Shioya Qiuzhen had no objection to Li Xiao's second decree.

Li Xiao was convinced that the implementation of Leshi Lezuo would be a win-win situation, which would stimulate the commercial prosperity of his two castles, increase his taxes, and stimulate the rise of free commerce, which would lead to the rise of the emerging power of merchants.

As a result of the historical Rakuchi Rakuza, all the Zaza organizations were not abolished, and at the same time, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also created many new Zaza organizations that belonged to their own forces, such as the gold, silver, and bronze seats of the Edo Shogunate.

The three towers of gold, silver, and bronze were all important means for the later Tokugawa shogunate to implement the three-goods policy of gold, silver, and copper currency circulation, and to control the circulation of gold and silver in the world.

In the eyes of Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa, the real purpose of Rakuchi Rakuza was not so much to break the monopoly, but to transfer commercial organizations such as Zasho from the hands of temples, communes, and local daimyos, and to realize a partial monopoly in their own hands.

Of course, Li Xiao thought the same, he actually used royal merchants like Shioya Qiuzhen to create greater profits for salt and grain monopoly, so as to hit his own enemy forces, the sister Xiaolu family, the Uchijima family.

Of course, what these three people in the world did not expect was that in the process of him, the original forces were broken and new forces arose.

Some of the famous zaibatsu of the present day, such as Mitsui and Sumitomo zaibatsu, actually began to rise at the end of the Warring States period and the early Edo period.

After Li Xiao promulgated the decree of the Leshi Lezuo.

In Kamioka no Machi, the superintendent of Jobu no Machi, and the process of handling the work were respectively handled by Ōzo Chang'an and Kinoshita Koichiro.

How to ensure fair trade between various businesses, prevent a certain privileged class from controlling and sabotaging, and form another nascent industry rule, this must be carried out under the supervision of Li Xiao's forces.

With the surname of the merchant of Shioya Qiuzhen, it is likely that the only one in charge of purchasing in Chengsheng Province will prefer to harvest his own salt goods at a high price and ignore the salt goods at low prices from other merchants.

This will undermine the rules of the market, so the supervision of business must also be carried out.

At the same time, when Li Xiaoying was concerned about the economy in the territory, a missionary from Portugal, who was originally called Nanban, had stepped into the territory of Li Xiaocheng's Shengzhicho.

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(To be continued)