Chapter 919 - Enforce a sea ban
In fact, according to the current commercial situation of the Luo family's territory, this way of joining the store is the best for the people who generally intend to participate in the internal trade of the Luo family. After all, whether it is raw materials, commodities, business methods, and management methods, the Luo family house that has taken root in the Luo family's territory will be responsible, and as a franchised citizen, as long as they are responsible for the actual operation of the commercial house and personnel management, in this way, the people will save a lot of trouble.
As for Roche House's adoption of this kind of franchise store to operate within Roche House, from the perspective of commercial profitability, it is to quickly set up commercial houses in various parts of Roche House, expand the business scope of Roche House, and form a business network of Roche House, so as to obtain more profits. From the perspective of the economic development of the Luo family's territory, it is a commercial network through the Luo family's house, which quickly distributes the daily necessities needed by the people to all parts of the territory and accelerates the development of the territory.
For ordinary lords, in addition to joining the internal trade of the Roche family territory as a franchise store as a Roche house, there is another way, which is to build a commercial house on their own. After all, the types of goods handled by Roche House are also limited, and at present, the main businesses it operates are grain, cloth, paper and books, salt (including coarse salt and snow salt), sake houses (combined with gourmet houses), Ming goods, Korean goods, Nanban goods, and local products unique to other forces of the Warring States, etc., while businesses such as fishery, transportation, other agricultural products, farm tools, lodgings, and baths still need other lords to operate. Even the lords could go directly to the Cabinet of the Interior to buy some raw materials that could be sold to the outside world to produce and manufacture goods on their own, or they could trade directly with the Roche House and sell the Roche House goods in some places that were not affected by the Roche House.
As for the commercial houses inside the non-Roche family. For example, merchants from the Ming Kingdom, Joseon, and the Southern Barbarians, as well as other local merchant houses in the Wa Kingdom. In the future, they will only be able to trade with the Roche House on the islands or ports designated by the Roche family. Among the items purchased by Roche House. If it belongs to the strategic materials designated by the Luo family, it will be sold to the Cabinet of Internal Affairs at the original price, which is one of the conditions for the Luo family to obtain the only foreign trade right, and as for other private goods, they can be sold according to the business needs of the Luo family itself.
Of course, Roche House will inevitably give priority to trade with commercial houses that have been cooperating with Roche in the past. After all, these commercial houses did give the Luo family a lot of help when the Luo family rose, although the Luo family became stronger, but at this time it could not be ungrateful. More importantly, these properties are not only more trustworthy than other properties that have joined in later. Moreover, the Intelligence Pavilion secretly arranged a lot of detailed work in these merchant houses, so that when they followed the merchant houses around to trade, they could keep abreast of the situation in various places.
In fact, this time the Luo family's commercial reform, the Luo family's external commercial houses and forces have the greatest impact, after this reform, in fact, the Luo family has continued to implement external retreat, and because of the geographical relationship and monopolized all the trade in North Korea (the route is covered by the Luo family's territory), and at the same time, it also occupies most of the Ming trade from the geographical point of view, so that the trade between the external merchant houses and other forces and North Korea and the Ming Kingdom will be greatly affected. In order to appease the merchant houses that have been cooperating with the Luo family, such as Yutianya and Nawu, the Luo family will give priority to the sale of goods from Korea and the Ming Kingdom to these merchant houses.
Maybe. From the perspective of the later civilization era, in this way, the Luo family has the possibility of monopolizing the internal business of the Luo family. However, judging from the current development needs of the Luo family and the development needs of the times at this time, this situation is appropriate. In the management of the territory, the treasury of the Zhengliang territory is separated from the private treasury of the lord, so as to prevent his descendants from becoming a moth in the treasury of the territory, thus affecting the development of the territory. From now on, the lord's treasury will be managed by the lord's family, and the territorial treasury will be jointly supervised by the territorial agency and the lord's family, and the materials in the territorial treasury will only be used for the development of the territory and the expansion of the family.
In addition, the Luo house is actually a product of the Luo family, it will still be supervised by the Luo family, and it will never become the blood and sweat of the exploitation of the territory, on the contrary, at this time, it will serve as a benchmark for the territory of the territory, on the one hand, it will quickly spread all kinds of commodities to all parts of the territory, and on the other hand, it will serve as a guide to guide the development of other territory commercial houses, so as to promote the development of the territory economy. As for the emergence of the so-called monopoly, I don't know how long ago it will appear, after all, Rome was not built in a day, not to mention that directly copying the system of the later civilization era to manage the economy of this era is likely to make jokes, and the right one is the best, so the Luo house at this time is a good tool to promote the commercial development of the Luo family's territory.
In general, this commercial reform clarified the respective responsibilities of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs and the Merchant House, and the Cabinet was able to allocate more resources to operate the economy of the territory, and monitor the development of the economy of the territory, avoiding the frequent occurrence of corruption in commerce and power (as long as there are people in the place, and there are interests and power in it, then corruption cannot be eliminated, and can only be avoided and reduced as much as possible). Roche House was able to participate in trade as a pure commercial house; Other commercial houses within the territory have been provided with resources and space for commercial development. The foreign trade of the Luo family will also be more standardized, eliminating the opportunity for external forces to exploit loopholes.
Of course, there are still some prerequisites for carrying out the above-mentioned business reforms, and the Luo family already has them at this time. These prerequisites are:
Internally, it is necessary to have a relatively independent and complete money system and an internal business system. In the absence of these two conditions (i.e., the province uses coins that are common to other regions, and the territory cannot produce goods internally), then the implementation of these reforms will inevitably attract the wrath of many foreign merchant houses and other forces. Once they simply cut off trade with the Luo family, then the common coins in the hands of the Luo family will become waste, and the internal commerce and even the territory economy will be stopped as a result, resulting in the economic crisis of the territory.
Now, after more than ten years of development, the Luo family has long formed its own production and business system, and under the control of the Luo family's law, it has been almost independent of the external business system. It is almost unaffected by external trade. And the private money minted by the Luo family, which has been implemented before. It has also infiltrated almost all the lords of the Luo family in the Kyushu region. It has become an indispensable part of the daily life of the people in these regions, and the newly occupied western region will also start to implement this private money in the coming months. With these two, the Luo family will not need to consider the reaction of external commercial houses and forces at all.
In addition, in foreign trade, after more than ten years of development, the goods of the Luo family have been in an advantageous position at this time, and they were weak in the past. Others don't know the goods of the Luo family, the Luo family will compromise with those businessmen in order to develop, in order to obtain money from them to strengthen their own power, and now the Luo family has become completely powerful, not only the Luo family itself, but even the Luo family's goods are also known to the world, and many goods are irreplaceable, representing great profits, so the Luo family naturally has the right to speak.
If the merchant is not satisfied with the ratio of the Luo family's coins to huàn, the Luo family will cancel the transaction. Leave it to other merchants who are vying to come and trade. As for the abolition of trade with the Luo family, it is even more impossible for merchants who want to make profits to give up the various goods of the Luo family, which represent great profits. As long as the businessman has no opinion on this. Then even if those other forces are angry because of this, it is pointless, unless they sacrifice the trade interests of their own territory to cut off trade with the Luo family, but it will only make them watch the other forces that compromise with the Luo family gradually grow from the trade with the Luo family. In the end, although he lost the opportunity to send a fine work to the Luo family through commerce and trade to investigate the details of the Luo family, at least after accepting the business requirements of the Luo family, he could still ensure the development of his own trade and ensure the acquisition of benefits.
In fact, such a strong expression of the Luo family is a manifestation of foreign economic aggression. Over the years, the Luo family has been constantly carrying out economic and cultural invasions of the surrounding forces by using only the Luo family's private money in guò trade, and constantly selling coarse salt, snow salt, cane sugar, paper, and books (most of the characters in them are simplified Chinese characters of the Luo family itself) to the shoe area. Now it's finally working. Now the trade within these forces will be more dependent on the Luo family, and thus controlled by the Luo family.
Finally, the Luo family also had a certain advantage in the field, and at this time, most of the Luo family's territory was surrounded by the ocean, which was conducive to blocking other forces from the Luo family's territory. At the same time, sea areas such as the Seto Inland Sea, Aki Beach, Shubo Beach, Hibiki Beach, Beppu Beach, Giyi Suido, Tsukima Strait, and Genkai Beach have all become the Roche Inland Sea. In order to implement this commercial change, Masahiro prepared to impose a ban on the outside sea.
The so-called ban on the outside sea is not a ban on commercial exchanges, but a ban on actual forces and commercial houses from entering the inland sea and territory of the Luo family. Foreign trade centers were set up only in specific areas on the border, and these trade areas were mainly Mitsuki Castle in Bigo Province, Nagasaki Castle in Suitan, Imaye Port in Iyu Province, Shigetsu Castle in Nagato Province, Sasuna Castle in Tsushima Island, and Goto Egawa Castle in Hizen Province. As for the Hakata Port of Chikuzen Province and Hirado Port of Hizen Province, which were originally used as foreign trade points, they will be abolished and become the domestic trade ports of the Roche family.
At the same time, after the sea ban, any non-Luo family ships were prohibited from entering any sea area of the Luo family, but the Luo family advocated leading the people to do business, canceled all the checkpoints in the Luo family's inland sea (including the checkpoints in the Guanmen Strait), and allowed the free passage of ships in the territory. This is mainly to prohibit the infiltration of external forces and launch an economic war against the Luo family, so as to protect the Luo family's domestic commerce and cultivate the business system of its own forces.
If the merchants of other daimyo feel that this will affect their trade, then there is a more direct way, which is to relocate to the territory of the Luo family and settle down, become a lord of the Luo family, and operate a business on the territory of the Luo family, and as for their original business outside the Luo family, they can cooperate with the Luo family (in fact, the Luo family is a disguised annexation of these merchant houses).
Of course, after the sea ban, the Luo family further monopolized the maritime trade, directly cut off the trade between other forces and Korea, and reduced the trade between the Ming and other forces, after all, the location of the Luo family is closer to the Ming Kingdom, so it occupies a geographical advantage.
This will naturally lead to dissatisfaction and even anger among the many forces, but at this time, among the famous and powerful people directly bordering the Luo family, the Nizi family is busy competing for interests in various places, the Maori family is beaten by the Luo family and can't raise their heads, and the Bigo country is full of wealthy families who can't unify against the Luo family at all, and the Kono family in the Shikoku region is also beaten to the point that they can't raise their heads, and the Xitu temple family is even more an ally of the Luo family. As for powerful and powerful people such as the Miyoshi family, although they will be dissatisfied with this, because they are not directly adjacent to the Luo family, they can only be angry, and there is nothing they can do. (To be continued......)