Chapter 58: Profiteering
After Yono cleaned up his sister, he turned his head and discussed the affairs of the family with Rijiu.
"Lord Rijiu, the detailed rules for the family of Spo Ashigaru have been completed."
Riku didn't understand what Yang Nai meant, and said.
"Ashigaru has just completed recruitment, and it will take at least three months of training to build up combat power.
During this time, they didn't have time to think about starting a family, even if they gave it to Yulu, it would be useless, and there was no urgency if there were no family details. ”
Yono's urgent need for Ashigaru's family made Rihisa feel embarrassed, and the recruits had to practice for at least three months.
It can't be like the time of interest, pulling into the battlefield in dozens of days, and ending up completely annihilated.
Although the five stone fortunes have made Ashigaru's enthusiasm high, it is impossible for Ashigaru, who was idle in the countryside before, to start a family, and there is no time to talk about marriage during this period of intensive training.
"Give them a day or two a month to return home, and with their five stone a year, the village women will tie their sons to the door and beg to marry them."
Yang Nai, who was born as a commoner, is very confident, and she understands the psychology of the villagers. An adult woman's annual ration is two stones, and these light one-year's rations are enough to feed two and a half.
And they don't spend anything in the barracks every day, and this large income is enough to make them the most popular single women in the village.
"I will build a military compound in the ruins of the Spo Guardian Mansion for Ashigaru's husband and children. Their husbands will arrange for things to work in the Spo family, and if they do well, they will also give them a fortune. ”
Riku asked.
"Yonohime, I don't understand why you put so much effort into making the Ashigaru people start a family, even if it can increase the township party affection and loyalty to the Spo family among them, it's too anxious.
The battle is ruthless, and if Ashigaru dies in large numbers, the orphan girls and widows left behind will become a serious burden to the family. ”
Yono nodded.
"That's what Riku-sama is worried about. But I am now in dire need of loyal men to work for the family, and Ashigaru's husband would be the ideal worker. ”
The decolorization method left by Yiyin has been tried, and the effect is exciting, and it is indeed a simple and quick way to make money.
But the problem now is that, as Yiyin said, the method is too simple to be kept secret. Yono hit the idea on Ashigaru's husband.
Imagine, Ashigaru himself went into battle to kill the enemy in the Spo family, and the husband and daughter behind him supported the Spo family. There are such good things in troubled times, how can the ashigaru group not be grateful and loyal.
And Ashigaru's husband lives together in the family compound and makes sugar in the courtyard. Not only will they have an extra share of money, but it will also be beneficial to keep the decolorization method secret.
The ancients valued the township party the most, and there was comradeship. If someone does something that leaks secrets and affects everyone's interests, it will definitely be exposed as soon as possible.
The traitor will be accused of all the women and will die without a problem. The pressure of this betrayal is far more murderous than the coercive method of sitting and imprisoning.
The Li family didn't know the decolorization method, so they expressed confusion about Yang Nai's behavior.
"Organize the husbands to work? Other samurai families also had similar methods of organizing manual work to subsidize their families, but the income was not ideal. For this reason, it is necessary to urge Ashigaru to become a family, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”
Seeing that Lijiu insisted, Yang Nai sighed, and had to give a confession to Lijiu, otherwise this matter would not be carried out.
Fortunately, in these days of contact, Lijiu's image of a loyal Ji samurai made her trust, so she was willing to say something.
"Before Lord Yiyin leaves, he left a secret recipe that can earn a lot of income to subsidize his family's military expenses. I'm afraid that the secret recipe will leak out, so now I've only made some of it myself, so please see. ”
Yono took out a small jar that he kept close to his body and poured out some sugar.
Li Jiu looked at the white crystals on the table that were as clear as snow, and she was shocked that she had seen a lot of the world.
"What is this?"
"It's sugar."
Riku twisted a few and put them in his mouth.
"It's really sugar, sweeter than the sugar sold outside, and there are no other miscellaneous flavors."
Yono nodded.
"This is the recipe given by Lord Yiyin, which can be purified from the sugar sold outside, and a pound of sugar outside can make half a catty of this white sugar."
Riku did the math.
"A pound of sugar outside is 300 yuan, and the cost of this white sugar is 600 yuan.
If you can protect the secret recipe and control the market, you can sell five or six pounds in the business port of various countries. ”
Lijiu had to sigh, if it was done properly, maybe the Spo family could raise ten times the current Ashigaru.
It is not uncommon for the samurai to expand their strength commercially.
For example, the Shofujo town of the Suruga Imagawa family controlled the trade of Tokaido, and for example, the Sakai Port controlled by the Shikoku Miyoshi family, which controlled the trade with the Ming Kingdom.
The strength of both families has expanded rapidly, and their strength far exceeds that of their own grain production.
If the Sibo family can monopolize the profits of this sugar, although it is not as good as those two, it can definitely exceed the income of the current family by more than ten times.
Lijiu was very excited, and the ronin who was chased and released by Oda Nobunaga was originally a lost dog. I didn't expect that there would be such an opportunity in the Spo family, and maybe one day I would be able to become a well-known Ji samurai in the world.
"Yang Naihime, I will fully support you. You just let it go! On the Ashigaru side, I will give them one day off for ten days and encourage them to go back to the village to marry. As for the resettlement of military territories in the future, please take a lot of pain. ”
Yang Nai bowed to Rijiu.
"I have something to plead with Maeda-sama."
"Yang Naihime, please speak."
"I don't have manpower for the time being, so I'll make some of them myself. It is sold secretly in the castle town of Mino, Kamiowari, Mikawa.
This matter requires me to concentrate, and I want to entrust the Xicun material directly under the Sibo family to the adults. ”
Riku looked at Yono speechlessly.
What are you Spo kings thinking? Spo Yiyin threw me the 1,500 stone territory of the barrel narrow, and you, Takada Yono, threw me the management of the river village 1,500 stone.
Is there a samurai like you? It can't be a fake, right?
The samurai family values knowledge and action above life, and the three thousand stones of the Spo family are all lost to the Maeda family for management. Aren't you afraid of becoming the Maeda family's stocking place?
Spit and complain, for the trust of the Spo family, Lijiu is deeply honored, this is the master family worthy of my head and blood.
Yang Nai also gritted his teeth and decided after thinking about it for a long time.
Lijiu is too strong with her in territory management,
And in order to avoid Nobunaga's possible covetousness, she had to hide in foreign countries to sell white sugar and earn military expenses.
She doesn't have the energy to take care of the family's internal affairs anymore, so it's better to hand it all over to Lijiu and take care of her duties.
In the mountains and forests where Ise, Iga, and Omi meet, two bandits are lying in a bush in camouflage.
They had been waiting all afternoon, and it was getting dark, and one of them asked a little impatiently.
"Chief, we've been waiting for so long and no one has come, did they choose another way?"
The woman known as the leader stared at the mountain stream path below, frowning, she was also a little uncertain.
"This is the news of the old relationship in the village in front of me, and there should be no mistake. Second, don't worry. ”
The woman who was called the second child couldn't help but move her stiff body.
"Chief, it's not me complaining. The sisters all lay on their stomachs all afternoon, and seeing that it was about to get dark, they were so hungry that they couldn't stand it.
When it gets dark, they can't walk in the mountain stream, and if they fall, they fall into the ditch, and they will definitely not come today. ”
The leader felt that she had a point, and looked around at the hidden place where several bandits were ambushed, and nodded hesitantly.
"There was no movement in those places, and the sisters were still able to endure it. Wait a little longer, and we'll leave if there's no movement. ”
The second child is also strange, usually stealing and playing tricks one by one, why is he motionless today, without complaining.
Looking closely at those dots, I always feel that it is eerily quiet. The drum was beating suddenly in my heart, something was wrong!
"Chief, chief, this is not right."
shouted a few times and didn't see her reply, reached out to push, and felt that her body was soft and unresponsive.
Just as he was about to scream, his mouth was covered, and a sharp blade was stabbed in his back, stirring in his heart.
Before losing consciousness, he looked behind him in horror, only to see his bloodthirsty eyes shining green, like a hungry wolf in the mountains and forests.
Outside the mountain, Yiyin yawned and sat on a tree stump by the roadside, with two horses scattered aside in search of tender grass roots.
Watching the horses snort and flick their tails, Yiyin held his chin with his right hand in boredom.
Why is it so slow to explore the way of interests.