Chapter 31: A Sensational Event in Tokaido
It is said that during the Warring States period, the great name of Tokaido - Imagawa Yoshimoto, was a famous family of the Kamakura Silla Hachiro Genyoshi family, known as the "first bow of Tokaido", and was an elegant daimyo who loved Noh opera, waka and other things, and was both civil and military. Imagawa Yoshimoto's father is called Imagawa Clan, his mother is Mrs. Shomuro - Shou Guini, and his Masanomato is the daughter of Takeda Shintora and the sister of "Kai Tiger" Takeda Shingen - Joein.
Imagawa Yoshimoto was a monk for a period of time when he was young, but in 1536 he was killed by the death of his eldest brother, Imagawa Shihui, and with the great assistance of his elder Tahara Yukisai, he became the head of the Imagawa family and inherited the family business after the Hanakura War.
After Imagawa Yoshimoto took power, he frequently competed with the Hojo family and the Oda family for power and profit, and his power continued to expand. Subsequently, in 1554, he concluded a three-family alliance of the Imagawa family, the Takeda family, and the Hojo family. According to the covenant, Tsuruga-hime, the daughter of Imagawa Yoshimoto, married Takeda Harunobu's eldest son, Takeda Yoshinobu; The daughter of the Hojo clan Yasu-Hayakawa Hall married the son of Imagawa Yoshimoto, the Imagawa clan, and was historically known as the Zentoku-Temple Three Kingdoms Alliance.
Subsequently, Imagawa Yoshimoto successfully defeated Oda Nobuhide in the Battle of Shodosaka and the Battle of Ansho Castle on the pretext that the Oda family of Owari Province had attacked the Matsudaira family of Mikawa Province, and took the young head of the Matsudaira family, Matsudaira Motoyasu (future Tokugawa Ieyasu), as a hostage of the Imagawa family. And after getting Matsudaira Motoyasu as a hostage, he skillfully used Matsudaira Motoyasu's identity to successfully control the Matsudaira family in Mikawa, making Okazaki Castle under the Matsudaira family one of the territories of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and finally expanded to the three kingdoms of Suruga Province, Enoe Province, and Mikawa Province, becoming a well-deserved Tokaido daimyo!
After becoming the head of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Yoshimoto deliberately imitated the culture of Kyoto, wearing straight clothes, wearing black hats, painting black teeth, drawing cicada eyebrows, applying grease powder, and holding poetry meetings, etc., to spread Kyoto's culture to the Kanto region. At the same time, he added several new articles to the Imagawa Kana Catalogue promulgated by his father, the Imagawa clan, adding emphasis on internal affairs, the organization of the nominee and lords, the strengthening of the management of workers and merchants, the establishment of a transportation system, and so on, and emphasizing the relationship between the master and the servant.
Since then, the Imagawa Kana Catalogue has been expanded to 54 articles, and it is the earliest division of the country among the daimyos of the Eastern Kingdom, and it is also the most complete of all family laws in the Warring States period. Of course, if you remove another parallel time and space of "Sister Uesugi who has Levi and Li Zhongren as a retainer". Again, I would like to pay my respects to Cambrona!
However, having said so much, most of it is an afterthought, and at this moment, Imagawa Yoshimoto is just a good young man who is only twenty-five years old and has just inherited the business of the two countries for about eight years.
In the past, Imagawa Yoshimoto would not pay much attention to the documents about commerce that came from some of his subordinates, but today it was different, and today this secret document from Inimajo in Enoe Province made him feel very novel, and he read it carefully countless times.
The general content of this secret document is that a business wizard was born in Hikima Castle in Enoe Province, and he opened a shop called "Qing Yaju" in a coastal merchant town in the southwest of Hikima Castle in Enoe Province. In this short year, the tax paid by his "Qingyaju" shop has reached three-quarters of the usual total tax revenue of Yuanjiang Kingdom!
And his "Qing Yaju" is also very peculiar, or should it be said that his business methods are very peculiar, it is simply unheard of!
After all, the main product sold in this shop, called "Qing Yaju", is actually nothing special, just wholesale one of the specialties of the coastal area of Yuanjiang Province - dried salmon, accompanied by some other sustenances.
Although the wholesale products are all big road goods, there is no special thing in the slightest, but this "Qing Ya Ju" has a business method that is very different from any other shop.
As long as the guests who come to patronize have paid a total of five taels of gold in the "Qing Yaju", they will get a deed, on which in addition to some unheard of terms, there are ten horizontal lines. As long as you have this contract, as long as you introduce a guest to visit this "Qing Yaju" and spend a total of five taels of gold, the guest's name will be filled in this contract. At the same time, "Qing Yaju" will give the introducer a shopping discount of one-twentieth of the original price, which means that you will buy things much cheaper in the future, only 90% of the original 50%. As long as the ten horizontal lines are all filled with names, from now on, there will be one-tenth of the discount on shopping in "Qing Yaju", and you only need to pay ninety percent of the fee!
With the birth of this contract, in less than half a year, the total income of "Kiyogaju" was close to three-quarters of the usual total tax revenue of Ene Province, and even more so, in the following six months, another branch was opened in a merchant town in the southwest of Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province, located between Enoe Province and Owari Province, which is close to Owari Province!
There were once other peers who were jealous of the boss of "Qing Yaju" and wanted to put pressure on this boss with novel methods. However, to everyone's surprise (if there was one at that time), what was unexpected was that the boss of "Qing Yaju" openly held a feast, invited many peers to come to dinner, and taught his own way of business to every boss who attended the meeting with one hundred taels of gold and proposed to form a trade union to implement the policy of everyone who has money to earn together!
What's more, this peculiar boss is surprisingly frugal, although he has made a lot of gold, but he has not bought a private house in Enjiang Province or Suruga Province, and sleeps in a bamboo house in the backyard of his "Qingyaju" every day! If you come to visit, you will find that in the bamboo house, there are only the most basic tables, chairs and furniture, without any furnishings and decorations!
The most strange thing is that no one knows where his wealth is hidden and where it is used, only that he has piled up mud troughs with soil in the backyard of his "Qing Ya Ju", which is full of all kinds and kinds of flowers.
The above is the content of this very thick secret document, although Imagawa Yoshimoto is full of suspicion of this strange businessman, but the other party's approach is completely in line with the "Imagawa Kana Catalog" promulgated by himself, and he has nothing to say.
In fact, what Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't expect was that if someone who paid attention to "Kiyoyaju" and the dense forest a hundred miles east of it every day and night, they would find a very strange thing.
On the last day of every month, in the dead of night, there will be two figures, quietly appearing in the bamboo house in the backyard of "Qing Yaju", and then not long after, these two figures will quietly appear in this dense forest located a hundred miles east of "Qing Yaju" without alarming anyone!
After these two figures appeared in the dense forest, they would use their fast speed to quietly march towards Owari Province, and seven days later, they magically appeared in the "Kiyomasaya" branch in the western merchant town of Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province!
Some people may ask, why do you use the word magic? Generally speaking, Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province is at least ten days away from Inmajo Castle in Enoe Province!
These two figures stayed in the "Kiyoyaju" branch for less than an hour or so, and unexpectedly entered Owari Province without anyone noticing, and appeared near one of the tributaries of Shincheon outside Cheongju Castle after six days!
This is the place where Wang Tianxie and Master Ji met for the first time to go fishing, and now Wang Tianxie and Master Ji have built a huge annex in the name of a resting place after swimming and catching fish, and the final destination of the two figures is precisely this courtyard.
It turned out that these two people and the boss of "Qing Yaju" were the four ninjas recruited by Wang Tianxie in the Ape Flying Ninja! And the task given to them by Wang Tianxie is simple and simple, but if it is difficult, it is also very difficult, that is-to transfer the wealth of the Imagawa family to the Oda family, and attract the attention of the Imagawa family as quickly as possible, so as to break into the interior of the Imagawa family!
It was already the winter of 1544, and it had been almost a year since Wang Tianxie left the Ape Flying Ninja.
In this year, as the boss of "Kiyoyaju", the Shibei Kaminobu has successfully spread his fame to the Imagawa family, and his identity is not only the boss of "Kiyoyaju", but also a junior executive of the Imagawa family to manage foreign business!
And thanks to Wang Tianxi, it comes from the membership system, the concept of discounts, the concept of cartels, and so on...... Far beyond today's business skills, Wang Tianxie's small vault, which was originally only the size of a burden, has become a large vault hidden under the bamboo house in the courtyard!
Among them, it has to be said that the concept of cartel alliance is based on the boss who produces the same kind of goods, monopolizes the entire related market, obtains high profits, and forms a business alliance through mutual agreements on commodity prices, production, and sales. The members of this alliance work together to draw up consultations to ensure that they are able to read the surname in the industry, in the market, and in the law! Of course, in order to cater to this ancient era, Wang Tianxie had discussed with Li Ji all night!
It is also this concept that cut off the blockade and resistance of other peers to "Qing Yaju", and made the "Qing Yaju" secretly controlled by Wang Tianxiao famous!
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