Chapter 146: Money House (Third Shift)

The reconstruction of Sakamoto Joshita Town was very rapid, and the joint efforts of Angita and Hida Gong demolished the castle town in half a month, and many tents provided by the Kira family were erected near Sakamoto Port, and these tents were still from the time of the war last year, and they were thrown into the warehouse after the war, and they were taken out and arranged for the residents of Sakamoto Port to live.

The newly built town will have a main road every 20 rooms, and the modules will be divided into 20 rooms horizontally and vertically, which will fit in with the castle town, and a six-room wide street will be set aside as the main road, and the side of Sakamoto Port near the shore of Lake Biwa will be planned as a port town, which will be responsible for the throughput and transfer of cargo terminals.

Other towns with strange names, such as shomachi, vocational town, folk town, hanamachi, and funamachi, were spread out one after another, because the plan became bigger and bigger, and the total budget was overrun, and the total budget was more than 1,000 kanbun to be successfully implemented, and in the words of Hosokawa Fujitaka, the more you spend now, the more taxes you will collect, so Kira Yoshitoki agrees without saying anything.

The smooth implementation of the Sakamoto Rakushi Ordinance and the Sakamoto Minato Town Reconstruction Ordinance dealt a huge blow to the merchants in Sakamoto Port, the former legally cut off the basis for their survival, and as an artificial intermediary between the lord and the townspeople, their existence was illegal, and with the backing of the Kira family's decree, the townspeople naturally stopped listening to the call of the merchants.

The latter was dealt a more complete blow, taking the opportunity of the reconstruction of Sakamoto Port, completely isolating the townspeople from the townspeople to two places, and relying on the transfer of the commissioner, the general service was levied on the spot to build a new town, and the townspeople were soon attracted by the vigorous vitality exuded by the neighboring castle towns, and the townspeople were soon attracted by the large cake drawn by the Kira family, where could the merchants fight the lords with the right to soldiers, not to mention that Kira Yoshitoki is now a famous general all over the world, and they can only knock out their teeth and swallow blood.

As the general invitation of Ninagawa is now only nineteen years old, he cooperates with only eighteen-year-old Hosokawa Fujitaka to do the entire castle town planning, but also responsible for the supervision of the construction of the gate, although he did not go to the battlefield to make meritorious service to the official position, but he lived a very happy year in this year, every day hard and busy to make a city in his hands a little bit bigger and stronger, and finally get a new life, which is full of a sense of achievement, than going into battle to cut off people's heads is much more interesting.

In contrast, the 25-year-old Odate Haritada, who is in charge of the tax commissioner, is much more troublesome, and he is responsible for collecting taxes and fees to enrich the government treasury, and one of the most important taxes and fees is the collection of money, which is collected from the peasants, and some fishermen who do not farm have to convert the value of the fish and shrimp, not only that, but he also has to find someone to sell the fish and shrimp as soon as possible, otherwise the tax will be levied in vain.

Taxation has always been a troublesome matter, and often disputes with local peasants and landlords are also because of taxation, and the peasants have no money in their hands, so they only want to pull down the grain, but the grain grown by every household is different, some grow more rice, and some grow less miscellaneous grains, and some do not grow grain, grow vegetables, grow fruits, plant mulberry trees, and so on, all of which have to be determined one by one to pay taxes, and then summarized in different categories, and those that are not suitable for storage must be sold immediately.

Not only that, but he also has to levy the house money, which is a kind of house tax, according to the number of houses to tax, the more houses to pay, the more the house will naturally pay, this tax is relatively easy to collect, the houses in the countryside are basically the houses built by the farmers themselves, the house money is to check how much tax you pay on a few houses, farmers usually do not reserve copper money, this is a troublesome thing.

Taxation is a chore, Shiga Takashima two counties have to run back and forth, it is indeed not easy, before this Odate Haritada alone had to resist all taxes, but Mitsui Toraka as the land inspector is much easier to do, the land inspection is to negotiate with the peasants in the countryside to deal with some land, with this experienced land inspector from the side, he has to do half the work, considering the practical difficulties of taxation, Kira Yoshitomo also specifically allowed them to call the countryside underground people, as a force to assist in the collection of taxes.

One year younger than Odate Harudada, only twenty-four years old this year, Matsui Yukan served as the town commissioner than him, this person is good at planning and proficient in arithmetic, especially for the abacus that has just entered Japan for a few years, he has a lot of experience, especially he also has a unique skill, that is, both hands plan the plate, and the fingers are flying all kinds of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are very fast.

What's even more outrageous is that he still has the ability to use two minds, while looking at the accounts, he plans to report the accurate numbers with both hands, and only needs a small surname to record each group of numbers in different categories.

However, as Hosokawa Fujitaka promoted the renovation of the castle town, Matsui Tomokan also found that he was a little too busy to do two things, and he found Kira Yoshishi again: "Please transfer Her Royal Highness Ina to assist you!" The construction of the castle has been completed, and it is a waste of talent to let Her Highness Ina take up an idle position. ”

"No problem, the family is about to tell you, the family has returned to Sakamoto Castle, Fujitaka's position as the castle generation has been removed, and he has served as the survey of the family, and the specific position remains the same as the head of the commissioner, and your position will also be adjusted in a new way, the new position is the city affairs commission, from the side to formulate financial and tax statistics, and assist the survey to manage government affairs, since you mentioned the loyal family, then he dismantled and you served as the town commissioner!"

"Yes! Your Majesty understands! His Majesty also had a private request, asking the owner of the pavilion to allow his younger brother Shinzaburo Nobuyuki to leave Shijira's house. ”

"Oh! Is the youngest of your three brothers? I remember seeing it once, and I just turned 20 this year! Since it's your younger brother, he must also have a good talent for government affairs! My family has given permission! Kira Yoshitoki thought about it for a while, and then said, "Let him be the commissioner of the town and serve as the first commissioner of the money house!" ”

Matsui Yukan was very smart, knowing that he was tied to the ship of the Kira family, so he found an opportunity to recommend his brother to Kyoto as the person in charge of the implementation of the money writing order, and now he has pulled his younger brother who had just left the shogunate down to the Kira family, which is equivalent to tying his family to the big ship of the Kira family, which is the most typical political speculation in the Warring States period of Japan.

At the beginning of February, Kyoto's money writing order was in full swing, and unlike the many money writing orders issued by the shogunate in the past, this time the decree was also accompanied by the newly established money house in Kyoto, and the designated place for the exchange of iron money and Yongle money was this money house.

It is worth mentioning that Yanagisawa Motomasa was appointed as the governor of Kyoto Moneya, this gentleman is a descendant of the Yanagihara family, a branch of the Fujiwara Kita family, the Hino family, and his father Yanagihara Shinemon Harumasa once appeared at the shogunate's Shodan, and also had a brief conversation with Kira Yoshitoki, who served Ashikaga Yoshiharu and Ashikaga Yoshito for two generations.

Yanagihara Harumasa was loyal to the two generations of the shogunate, and his son Yanagisawa Motomasa officially changed the Miao character to Yanagisawa when he was in the Yuanfu, which was also to show the outside world that their clan would firmly transform into a samurai to serve the shogunate, and Yanagihara Harumasa came out of the shogunate as a samurai, in fact, it was also a crooked move that the Hino family came up with in order to strengthen their bond with the shogunate.

The Hino family has had many generals' main rooms, including many famous figures, such as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's two main chambers Hino Yoshiko and Hino Yasuko, Ashikaga Yoshinori's main chamber Hino Eiko, Ashikaga Yoshikyo's main chamber Hino Muneko, side chamber Hino Shigeko, and Hino Tomiko who caused the Onin Rebellion.

Their family rose because they were close to the emperor as the emperor of the Ming Academy, and they rose to prominence for the Ashikaga clan, and as the Ashikaga family became the general of the Seiyi and became associated with many generals and became prominent for a while, but since the first generation of the prince Ashikaga Yoshiharu married the daughter of the Konoe family, the Hino family began to be left out in the cold, so there is a reason why their family came with a mission.

Yanagisawa Motomasa of the Gangyuan service cherished this appointment very much and worked very hard, often taking the materials to write the money order back and forth between Kyoto and Sakamoto, his father told him a simple truth, down-to-earth work, see the opportunity must be seized, so when Kira Yoshitoki proposed the money writing order and money house official affairs in the Nijo Imperial Office, Yanagisawa Motomasa volunteered to stand up and take over the mission.

Rather than following the shogun as a close attendant, being recognized and appointed as an executive officer by Kira Yoshitoki is a shortcut to heaven, and now the whole of Kyoto knows that Kira Yoshitoki is a popular man in the imperial court and shogunate, and being able to climb his big tree will definitely be of great help to the future future.

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PS: Yanagisawa Motomasa is a historical figure, but in history, it is a soy sauce, and most of the shogunate has become soy sauce, which has something to do with the great tragedy of Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

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