Chapter 160: Ancient Currency Wars
The short trip to Kyoto soon ended, Kira Yoshitoki quietly returned to Sakamoto Castle, and the expansion work around Sakamoto Castle was finally completed at this time, and the newly built Sakamoto Castle was enlarged a lot, and Sakamoto Minato Town is similar to the horizontal and vertical Sakai Town, with wide and flat avenues and neat specifications of Sakai Town, all of which show that the founder of this Sakamoto Castle has extraordinary courage and ambition.
All the craftsmen sent by Wang Dan arrived, and were arranged by Yamamoto Tokiyuki to be busy in various offices, and the Tsuda family also transported the 150,000 taels of silver to Sakamoto and Kyoto two cities, and some time ago because of the urgent exchange of silver in Kira Yoshito, the price of silver rose sharply, and after the research of Sakamoto Kai, it was decided that Matsui Yukan took this opportunity to reverse the operation, and invested a huge amount of silver into the market many times to buy Yongle money that fell into the trough.
In fact, this is not complicated, after the mention of Kira Yoshi, they quickly mastered the method of cracking down on this most primitive speculation, and invested silver in batches to buy Yongle money that was suppressed to a very low price, at that time the exchange rate between Kyoto and Sakamoto was 1 Guan Yongle money for 2 taels of silver, you must know that before this, 1 Guan Yongle money can be exchanged for 4 Guan Liang money, 1 Guan Liang money is equal to 1 tael of silver, that is to say, the value of Yongle money was artificially doubled, which was caused by the forced exchange of silver before Ji Liang Yi.
The group of merchants who hoarded Juqi silver made a lot of money when the Kira family exchanged silver before, and raised the price of silver so that the Yongle money of the Kira family was useless, and Matsui Yuxian had to grit his teeth to accept the suppression of high-priced silver, and now this group of merchants is wantonly suppressing the price of Yongle money and waiting for an opportunity to seize the market dominance of Kyoto and Sakamoto.
Now the Kira family began to invest silver in turn, and they all thought that this was a forced countermeasure, so they each took out the Yongle money in their hands to buy silver, and then the Kira family continued to invest silver, and they continued to eat it, never realizing that they had fallen into a huge trap.
On the first day, the Kira family invested 10,000 taels of silver, and it was snapped up in less than half an hour, which created a false impression for the townspeople, as if the silver was very hot and the Yongle money was worthless, and then the next day the Kira family invested 20,000 taels of silver, which was still sold out in an hour, and even the shadow of Sakamoto merchants was found in the crowd, and they really stood on the opposite side of the Kira family.
On the third day, the Kira family directly invested 30,000 taels of silver, this time it took a full afternoon to be taken by these merchants, the merchants already felt bad, the Kira family seemed to have endless silver smashed out, how could they have so much Yongle money to buy, the money people don't want, they can only take the money and grit their teeth to go to the money house to exchange Yongle money, in fact, the Yongle money they cashed out was all bought from them by the Kira family the day before, even if they knew that there was a problem here, they could only grit their teeth and persevere.
The most dramatic thing is that on the fourth day, the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver, at that time the group of merchants were dumbfounded, how could there be so much silver, it was difficult to retreat, and it was difficult to ride a tiger, so they could only borrow money hard, but no one borrowed money after turning around, and the merchants of Sakai Town, who used to come and go frequently, closed their doors to thank customers, they didn't know that these merchants were warned by the Kira family and did not dare to lend them money, and finally they could only take the iron money and silver in their hands to the money house to exchange for high-priced Yongle money.
So on the fifth day, when the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver, everyone understood what was going on, they were tricked! It was the Kira family who played them, manipulating the exchange rate markets between Kyoto and Sakamoto, and the money house had an official exchange rate of 1 kan Yongle money equal to 4 taels of silver, and they wanted to use 1 kan Yongle money to buy 3 taels of silver at the price of crazy eating, and finally ran out of money and then took the silver to the money house and bought Yongle money at the price of 4 taels of silver for 1 tael of Yongle money...... He is being played by him inside and out.
So the Kyoto and Sakamoto merchant alliance collapsed silently, and the smart merchants came to Sakamoto Castle to apologize in person, sold the hoarded silver in their hands to the Kira family at the official price, cut the meat and announced that they would withdraw from this game of losing the game, and some people lost red eyes or did not recognize the facts, and still desperately exchanged money to buy silver, wanting to fight to the death with the Kira family.
On the sixth day, the Kira family invested another 30,000 taels of silver, and all the merchants who tried to resist collapsed, and they could no longer afford to exchange money to eat the silver in the market, and the price of silver was irrepressibly suppressed to the official exchange rate of the money house, and the advantage they had worked so hard to maintain was like a child's castle of sand, which crumbled at the moment when the waves came.
Some people jumped directly into the Kamogawa River to commit suicide, and some hid in the courtyard of their own house and hanged themselves, in this short few days of the game, the last group of people's assets have shrunk to the original thirty percent, except for leaving a pile of high-priced silver to gain nothing, Kira Yoshitoki with this small exchange rate war, not only won the market control of Kyoto and Sakamoto, but also made a profit of 30,000 yuan Yongle money, so far the position of the money house in the two cities has not been shaken, and the merchants in the two places have given up resistance to the obedient low and arrogant heads.
The arrival of the bricklayers, carpenters, and blacksmiths of the Ming Kingdom immediately brought good news to the Kira family, and the first major discovery was made by the bricklayer of the Ming Kingdom, and in late March, the brick and tile general instructed the Cave Taizhong to build a brick kiln under the hills at the northwest end of the town of Sakamoto Castle.
The first new town was established in late April at the northern end of Sakamoto Castle Shimoto, a tall house made entirely of bricks and wooden structures, and a bricklayer who had apparently lived in Kyushu for many years and spoke fluent Kyushu Japanese, after considering the problem of earthquakes, switched to a new style of roofing with a masonry structure on the outside and a wooden girder mortise and tenon on the inside.
In contrast, carpenters and blacksmiths are much smaller, they mainly lie in the mutual exchange of carpentry and ironsmithing technology, Japanese blacksmiths and carpenters still maintain the craftsmanship of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty has been completely different from the previous craftsmanship, after the exchange of the two sides, each find out the experience that is beneficial to themselves, the craftsmanship of the Tang and Song dynasties is a rare opportunity for the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to pursue the ancient method, and the new craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty is also a rare learning opportunity for Japanese craftsmen.
The level of the Ming Guo physician is relatively average, probably because Wang Dan was afraid of learning advanced medical skills, so he only sent a middle-aged physician who was less than forty years old, but it was not too much of a problem for him to take a few children, these craftsmen made it clear that they would only stay for half a year, not for one more day, and I could teach you what I could teach in other words, but you don't want to detain people.
Kira Yoshishi readily agreed, what can a few craftsmen do, he wants these people to be purely a cover for the goldsmith, if they can learn the mother's money sand turning method, these people will be no problem to return to Kitakyushu immediately.
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