In the council hall of Kishigaku Castle, Kamiya Susea is reporting to Masayo on his work during this period.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty has visited several places according to the information provided by the detective," Kamiya Sausei said respectfully.

"Thank you for your hard work, let's talk about what you have gained this time," Masashi said. Last time, Masara told the Kamiya family some terms of the Rakuchi Leza, in order to implement these terms in the Luo family's territory as soon as possible, Masara gave some of the information about the various merchants in the territory to Kamiya Shaoce, and then asked him to investigate all over the territory according to this information, and now he has finally completed the mission and returned.

"The situation of the various merchants in the territory, His Majesty has already supplemented it on the basis of the original information, Your Highness please check it" Kamiya Suseze handed a book that had been prepared a long time ago to the small surname Murakami Takeyoshi. The latter took it and respectfully handed it to Masayo.

"In terms of geography, because of the good relationship with the former Hirado Matsuura clan, there are many commercial houses in Minami Matsuura County. With the implementation of the family's entry into Karatsu Bay and the implementation of the law of blocking the border of the territory, some of the commercial houses belonging to Hakata in Karatsu Bay have all lost the support of Hakata, and now most of them have been converted into small commercial houses operated by the original guys themselves; As for the rest of Matsuura-gun, there are not many commercial houses due to the fact that they have been relatively backward in the past, but mainly tourist merchants from other regions," said Kamiya Sakusai first.

"Tell me about the rest of the counties." Masarashi nodded and said. As the first to become the territory of the Luo family, Matsuura-gun, the commercial situation there. Zhengliang is very clear. Now he was more concerned about the situation in the rest of the counties, after all, these places were newly occupied for only half a year, and because of the support of the original wealthy clans, in fact, there were many organizations similar to the merchant seats in these places. These shops have the right of 'exclusive right to sell, the right to non-taxation, and the right not to enter'. Among them, the monopoly of the right to sell a certain commodity in the local area is to implement the exclusive sale of any businessman, and any businessman who is not a powerful force is not allowed to interfere in the local business. The right to be taxable is to negotiate with the local daimyo to exempt some or all of the goods from taxes. If you don't enter the power, you are a local daimyo. Without the permission of the merchant, it is not allowed to forcibly requisition the goods for use.

It is precisely because of these exemptions that the merchants are able to dominate this market. Once the Luo family implemented the law of the music seat of Qile City in their territory, these organizations would inevitably become the fiercest opponents.

"In the rest of the counties, Saga and Ogi are the most numerous, and these houses are based on the power of the wealthy clans or temples and shrines in the past, and they monopolize the right to do business in a certain area." Kamiya Saute continued to report, "When I visited secretly, some of my lords once said to my subordinates. They had seen vendors from other places come with truckloads of oranges to sell, but not only did they have to pay a lot of taxes. And when the vendor lowered the price of the oranges, the merchant house there came to beat the vendor and even robbed the vendor of all the oranges. "Shenwu Shaozhan tells the story of a typical businessman who bullies and dominates the market because he has a backer behind him.

"However, the situation is very different now." Kamiya Shaozhan continued.

"Oh? Big difference? Zhengliang wondered.

"Exactly. His Highness," Shenya Shaozhan bowed and said, "Due to the relocation plan of the wealthy clans promoted by His Highness, the implementation of the laws of temples and shrines, and the implementation of the rest of the laws of the territory, these actions of those merchants have been greatly weakened. In particular, the closure of the territorial borders has dealt a big blow to their business, so the influence of these commercial houses is gradually weakening. ”

"Hmm," Masaki nodded. Wealthy families, temples and shrines, and merchant houses, these three are generally in general. They all have various connections secretly, and most of the time, these three rely on each other to form an interest group. However, what Zhengliang has been implementing for most of the past six months is a territorial integration policy that cuts through the chaos with a quick knife. The so-called quick knife to cut through the mess is not to choose to start the integration from the relatively weak strength of the merchant house, but on the contrary, it directly opens the knife to the much more powerful wealthy families and temples and shrines, and directly integrates at the root. And it took a swift and tough stance. Forced integration.

In fact, according to Zhengliang's style of doing things, he prefers to integrate slowly and gently, but this time there is a different reason. First of all, it is about to be the eleventh year of astronomy (1542), and many major events of the Warring States are about to happen. Many Warring States cattle began to appear on the stage, and there was not much time left for the Luo family, so the pace of the Luo family's strength must be accelerated; Secondly, in the current territory of the Luo family, the powerful wealthy family has been completely cleaned up by the Luo family, so the remaining small wealthy families are not Luo's opponents at all. The measures taken by the political good to forcibly carry out the integration are supported by strong strength. It is precisely because of the above two reasons that Masayo made up his mind to carry out a quick and chaotic integration method. Now from Kamiya Shaozhan's words, Masara finally saw the effect of this integration.

"In that case, then the terms I told you last time can be enforced." Masarashi said, "I've already written the specific terms here, so you can find Togo Heiji as soon as you go back, and then start implementing them." Masarashi said as he asked Murakami Takeyoshi to hand a book to Kamiya Shaozhan.

"Rakushi Rakuza?" After Shenya Shaozhan took the book, he immediately flipped through it.

"Not bad." Zhengliang said, "I will name this new law as Leshi Lezuo, and the scope of promotion is within the territory of the Luo family. The law was implemented in three steps, starting with the selection of two or three places in each county as bazaars, where all the nearby commercial houses were centralized for unified management; secondly, in the conspicuous places of the territory, to affix a writ to all the people, and to tell all the people that from now on, within the territory of the Luo family, all the privileges and toll taxes of the merchant houses shall be abolished, and only the transaction tax shall be collected, and the merchants shall be encouraged to trade in the bazaars established in the counties, and at the same time, the common people shall not be required to collect any transaction tax for the first two years of the commencement of commerce; Eventually, after a period of time, when these newly established markets prospered, the model of these markets gradually spread to each town. "The merchant houses will be concentrated in a certain place, firstly, to facilitate their management, so that they can enforce the laws of the territory under the supervision of the Luo family, and secondly, to establish an exemplary role for the other gates to see the prosperity of these markets after the implementation of the laws of the Rakushi Leza.

"In this way, I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among those merchants," Kamiya Shaozhan said worriedly.

"It doesn't matter. With the end of the relocation of the wealthy clans and the implementation of the territorial law, these merchants have lost their support, and even if they are dissatisfied, they can't make any trouble. Masato said. The forced relocation order of the Hao clan and the implementation of the new temple and shrine management law made these merchant houses lose the support of the power behind them, and the people of the domain knew their rights through the territorial law, and gradually lost their fear of these merchant houses, and these merchant houses would only be forced to disappear or transformed into commercial houses that met the requirements of the Luo family's law.

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