After asking Kakukuma Ishimune and Yamamoto Kansuke to go down to prepare for Hizen, Masarashi picked up the second letter again.

This letter was written by Kamiya Sakusai and Amada Nobuyasu to Masayo, and it mainly reflects on the matter of the imperial court's money writing order. Just a few months before the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, was forced to flee Kyoto, the shogunate suddenly issued a money writing decree, which meant that the use of bad money was strictly prohibited.

There were many local copper mines in the Wa Kingdom, so many wealthy families would forge their own copper coins, which were not only used for the use of the Hao clan's territory itself, but also began to spread to places outside the territory with the arrival of merchants. Over time, these evil coins became the local currency of the Wa Kingdom together with the Yongle copper coins from the Ming Kingdom.

However, due to the limitations of the technique, the quality of these evil coins is uneven, and in general, the quality is much worse than that of the copper coins from the Ming Kingdom. In addition, the Wa Kingdom has always exported a large amount of copper ore to the Ming State, and then exchanged it for a large amount of copper money, and there has even been an oversupply. And the existence of a large amount of bad money has exacerbated this oversupply situation.

The trigger for the shogunate and the imperial court's decision to ban the use of bad money was the return of the Ouchi family and the Ming kingdom's Kanai trading fleet two years ago. This time back, the fleet of the Ouchi family brought back tens of thousands of copper coins, and such a large amount of Ming copper coins were once again invested in the people of the Japanese country, and the impact was immeasurable. Although this era is far from developing into the commercial era of later generations, it will still affect the people to varying degrees.

And the Ouchi family and even the entire Kansai region suffered losses due to the oversupply of currency, so they banned the use of bad money in their own territories. The shogunate was also asked to issue a money writing order. The use of bad money is prohibited. After receiving a lot of benefits. Naturally, the shogunate was happy to push the boat along with the current, and naturally agreed to this.

Although the influence of the shogunate was not as great as it once was, it still affected the trade among merchants to a certain extent, especially in the vicinity of Kyoto. However, the Luo family is vigorously promoting its own bad money, which is naturally contrary to the order of the shogunate, and more importantly, the Luo family's foreign trade has also been affected to a certain extent. Therefore, Amada Nobuyasu and Kamiya Sakura specifically sought the opinion of Masaka on this matter.

Zhengliang read the letter and immediately replied. First of all. The territory of the family still requires that only the coins forged by the family can be used, and as for the other bad coins and the coins of the Ming Kingdom, they are replaced according to the quality and in a certain ratio.

Secondly, for coins outside the territory, since the shogunate requires that evil money no longer be used, then it is better not to use it anymore, anyway, the Luo family has obtained a complete set of Ming coins from the Ming Kingdom The minting technique is good, and now they simply copy the coins of the Ming Kingdom, and then sell dog meat with a sheep's head. Put these pseudo-Ming coins into trade again. Anyway, with the current identification technology, there is no way to identify the difference between these Ming coins.

The most rear. It is to take the opportunity to buy those bad money at a low price, and then take back the territory and re-mint it into Ming coins, and then put it into commerce and trade again to earn the difference.

In such a simple way, the negative effects of the shogunate's money-making decree were easily eliminated.

After replying to the letters between Kamiya Sakure and Amada Nobuyasu, Masarashi picked up the last letter on the desk.

This letter was brought back by Kizuku Shigetada, who was far away in the Kanto region. By this time, Kizo Shigetada had already recruited a group of talents according to the list provided by Masahiro, including Kasuga Toranobu, who was later renamed Takasaka Masanobu by Takeda Shingen. In addition to reporting on the recruitment of talents, Kizo Shigetada also compiled some information about the daimyo collected in various places to Masara.

During this period of time, a lot of things have happened in various places.

The first is the Mutsu area. The Date family, which can be said to be one of the overlords of Mutsu, is in the midst of civil strife at this time. The reason for the incident was that the governor of the family, Date Minoru, wanted to use his third son, Minoto, as the adopted son of Echigo's guardian Uesugi Dingshi, but was opposed by his retainers Kushiri Keichonaga and Nakano Munetoki. These two men then instigated Qingzong, the son of the Emperor, to arrest him when he returned from hunting and imprisoned him in the city of Sangzhi Xishan. After that, the retainer of Date Minoru Odagawa Munetomo infiltrated the Sangori Nishiyama Castle to rescue Minomune, and after the Emperor was rescued, he was assisted by Soma Kenyin and Kashida Toshimune, Ashina Mori, Nikaido Teriguki, Tamura Kasataka, Osaki Yoshinobu, Kasai Haruhin and others; His son, Harune, fought against Minoru with the solemn support of his retainers and his father-in-law, Iwaki. The Date Astronomical Rebellion (also known as the Cave Rebellion), which lasted for more than six years, finally broke out.

Return to the Kanto Yashu region. Due to the continuous infiltration of the Hojo family into the Kanto region, Uesugi Kenmasa, who was still quite powerful at this time, finally decided to crusade against the Hojo clan, so he went to Kashimasha to pray for victory. In contrast, in the future, the Ashikaga Haruko, the prince of Jikogawa, who became a brother to Uesugi Kenmasa, swore an alliance with the Hojo clan, agreeing that the two sides would have no dissent, and the oath was drawn up by the Hojo retainer Ryoda Takasuke.

At this time, the Shinano area was still at war. After being defeated by Takeda Shingen, Suwa Yorishige went to Kofu to negotiate peace with Shingen, and was placed under house arrest by Shingen, and finally committed suicide in grief and anger. After completely controlling Suwa-gun, Takeda Shingen finally showed his fangs and began to invade the Shinano region, and at the same time determined to avenge the invasion of Kai by the Shinano wealthy clan two years ago, only to be defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo at Daimon Pass. Shingen Takeda, who returned from defeat, returned to the territory to rearm and prepare for a comeback, and on the other hand, he also began to pay attention to the internal affairs of the territory. It is worth mentioning that it was during this period that Takeda Shingen began to build an embankment in the Kamashi River basin, which is historically known as Shingenjeon.

Owari area. Owari no Tiger Oda Nobuhide continued his expansion momentum, first allied with Echizen Asakura Takakei to invade Mino in the name of supporting former Mino's guardian Toki Yorigi. Takakei sent Asakura Kyokei (Soto) south from Echizen to join Nobuhide at Inabayama Castle, where an army of about 25,000 men was said to have been defeated, but he was defeated by Saito Michizo, who was fighting outside the castle, and fled back to Owari in disarray. Of course, Oda Nobuhide was not without harvest during this period of time, at least under his scheme, Mizuno Nobumoto, the lord of Mikawa Kariya Castle, betrayed Imagawa Yoshimoto and attached Oda Nobuhide. With the surrender of the lord of Kariya Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu's mother was forced to divorce Matsudaira Hirotada under the oppression of the Imagawa family and marry a wealthy family in Owari, and since then, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga are about to enter the stage of history.

Kyoto area. After the rebellious Kizawa Nagamasa was defeated, Hosokawa Harumoto confronted the Hosokawa clan again. Soon after, Hosokawa Harumoto entered Akutagawa Castle and confronted the Hosokawa clan, which was stationed at Manaoji Temple. After that, Gengoro Ueno, the general of the Hosokawa clan, broke the army of Kamoto of Hosokawa Harumoto in Sakai Town. The two sides continue to be locked in a scuffle.

On the western side, the Ouchi family and the Niko family fought for several silver mines in the Iwami area around Iwami, and the Maori family next to it secretly reorganized the wealthy families within it, originally according to the development of history, during this period of time, the Maori family will gradually include the Yoshikawa family and the Kobayakawa family into the scope of its power, but because of the secret tricks of Masayo, it led to the failure of its scheme, but this is also a temporary suppression of the development of the Maori family, with the means of the Maori Yuan, sooner or later he will shoot again.

On the Shikoku side, Kono Tsunao in the Iyu region forcibly ordered all the people of Koyasan to move to the Uezoin Temple, but did not make the necessary preparations, which led to riots in the area, and fires were being extinguished everywhere. Not far away in Tosa Province, Ichijo's family, which was still in the leading position in Tosa, was not willing to be lonely, and Ichichichiboji sent troops to fight with Tsunoki and Onomi, Takaoka County, and the two armies continued to fight since then. But neither of them realized that the real enemy, the Changzong family, had also begun to secretly annex the surrounding Hao clans at this time.

And in the Kyushu area, some powerful information also attracted the attention of Masayo. First of all, there is information about the Shimazu family, and it has now been confirmed that Shimazu is trying to imitate iron cannons, and recently the Shimazu family has even hired the famous craftsman Yasaka Kanbeibei Kiyoshi to imitate the iron cannon. In addition, some of Ouchi Yoshitaka's recent actions have also aroused a hint of vigilance on the part of Masayo.

Recently, Yoshitaka Ouchi has issued a series of decrees, the first of which is to prohibit Itsukushima visitors from setting up customs offices to collect taxes by the police (groups that protect those who go to Itsukushima). Secondly, just recently, he went so far as to ban extravagance in his territory.

Damn, history records killing people. Who said that since the defeat of Izumo, Yoshitaka Ouchi has been in a state of slump for a long time, at least since this year (1545), Yoshitaka Ouchi has obviously begun to pay attention to political affairs.

After reading the information from various places, Masarashi stood up, and then strolled to the terrace of the castle tower, put his hands on the guardrail of the terrace, and looked into the distance. In the distance, the sound of the river on the Matsuura River was hitting the rocks on the shore, and the rumbling sound of the waves could be heard from time to time.

The historical tide of the Warring States period has finally swept in. (To be continued......)