Keiji Maeda has taken Sukezaemon everywhere to buy horses these days, and he has also suffered a lot. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

One is that Sukezaemon doesn't have a lot of money, and when he sees an expensive horse, he always finds various reasons to shirk and doesn't want to pay for it, so Maeda Keiji has to beat him over and over again.

The second is that Japan is a place where material resources are scarce after all, and horses are a valuable object, and they are not kept everywhere. Most of the horse farms in the castle town have the resources of the entire castle town, and there are only a few hundred horses, including agricultural horses. And among them, those who can be selected as war horses, and it is quite good to have dozens of them.

Keiji Maeda is a very serious person, although he is a stranger, he looks unkempt and doesn't seem to care about anything. But in fact, he is still very conscientious and responsible when handling the tasks assigned by Gao Xianda.

If one place can't be done, then go to a few more places. To this end, he traveled to every country from to Suruga. Finally, he reluctantly put together two thousand war horses, and they were war horses in the standard sense.

Of course, Sukezaemon paid a high price for this, and even the borrowed money had already been spent. I can only rely on the past relationships in various places, and I can borrow a little bit is a little bit. In the end, I was burdened with a loan shark, and now I am about to give up my life.

Keiji Maeda returned with 2,000 horses, hoping to organize a cavalry force in a few months and then attack Inabayama Castle.

Gao Xianda had promised him that if he captured Inabayama Castle, then he would make him the lord of Inabayama Castle. Inabayama Castle is a big city in the world, and if you can become the lord of Inabayama Castle, it is a very beautiful thing, and it can be regarded as a glorious lintel.

But how did he think that before his cavalry troops began to be formed, Inabayama Castle had already been taken by the Imagawa family!

In addition to being frustrated, this made Maeda Keiji take a look at Gao Xianda's strength even more.

"It's okay, we're just getting started. Your cavalry unit is still very important, and you must continue to form it! Gao Xianda looked at the quality of the horses that Keiji Maeda had bought.

He originally thought that with Saemon's current financial resources, it would be good to be able to buy back a batch of meat horses, but he didn't expect that this batch of horses would be a top war horse. Although the quality is much worse than that of famous horses such as Ferrari and Songfeng, the quality is above the average, and it is already a rare good thing on the battlefield.

So Goldenda is very happy about this.

It just so happened that he captured Inabayama Castle without any loss, and obtained a large amount of military funds and a large number of treasures in the castle from Saito Ryuko for nothing. Gao Xianda picked out a few exquisite treasures and rewarded them with Keiji Maeda and Sukezaemon.

And looking at the quality of the horses and the embarrassment of Suzaemon, Gao Xianda understood that he had endured a lot of hardships these days, and the money was definitely not enough to spend.

Sukezaemon is a talent, and he can't really force him to death. Just let him know it's wrong, and that's it. So Gao Xianda borrowed the name of the reward to fill some money to help Saemon, at least let him pay back all the money he owed, and there was still a working capital left to maintain the operation of the business.

If you don't think about the loans, Sukezaemon's business is actually going well. When he went to Kyoto and Sakai a while ago, he naturally didn't forget to expand his business.

Suruga's large tuna and Toe's agricultural products are among the bestsellers in other places. Mino's clay proved to be of great development value, and it was able to produce fine porcelain. At the urging of Sukezaemon, some artists decided to move from Kyomachi to Mino, specifically to make beautiful ceramics.

The ambergris produced by the sperm whale caught in Sunfu was also sought after by merchants in Sakai Town, and Imai Munehisa made it clear that if there was such a good thing in the future, he would take as much as he wanted, and it was 30% higher than the price on the market.

Sukezaemon passed the test because of this horse buying event, and regained the newcomer of Koxianda. Therefore, Koxianda still asked his merchant to carry out business activities as the chief merchant of the Imagawa family, and gave him the greatest help in all aspects.

It's just that as the chief merchant, he was raised the tax rate. Sukezaemon made money from his trading activities, but in fact most of it was handed over to the Imagawa family as military funds.

But as long as it is a monopoly industry, it is still profitable. And these trade routes were indeed established with the help of Goldenda. As long as Gao Xianda said a word, he could get him out, and he couldn't get a single piece of goods. There are many merchants who covet the position of Saemon and are eager to try it. So Sukezaemon calculated it and thought it was still profitable, so he agreed.

Because Mino is a large country, the size of Owari and Mikawa, and it has a large population, it is a place worth developing. Moreover, most of these castle lords came to Chengcheng, and it is inevitable that there are people who care about the old owner, so a series of personnel transfers are needed to ensure the Imagawa family's control of Mino.

In order to ensure the implementation of this plan, Kosenda left Nobutsuna Kamiizumi behind to support Kinoshita Tengjiro's army and stabilize the army, and then asked Maeda Keiji to temporarily act as the lord of the castle in Sumamata Castle, mainly responsible for training a strong cavalry force.

Although Sumimata Castle is a military stronghold, it is a small castle newly built by Kinoshita Tengjiro, and the facilities inside are not complete enough. It is said to be a castle, and the living conditions are no different from a barbone. As the lord of the city here, the others don't have to be blushing. It is very suitable for Keiji Maeda, who has not yet made meritorious contributions to the Imagawa family.

In addition, Momata Castle is located in the middle of Kiyoshu Castle and Inabayama Castle, and the three castles are horns of each other, so you can mobilize troops at any time to prevent rebellion.

Gao Xianda returned to Junfu City alone to discuss his next plan with Meng Yan.

Meng Yan's nickname is "Sai Zhuge ", although this is his own self-styled title, but in fact, he does have two tricks in internal affairs, which is much more powerful than the real Imagawa Yoshimoto.

In the short period of time he returned to Sunfu Castle, he had already sorted out the affairs of the Imagawa family, and arranged the retainers to be obedient. Then he was not in a hurry to carry out armaments, but ordered the common people to hurry up and engage in production.

The Junfu and Yuanjiang areas were not plagued by the war this year, so farming was not delayed. Sure enough, under his supervision, this autumn, all the territories of the Imagawa family were basically harvested, and a large amount of rice was accumulated that could be used as food for soldiers, and the population also increased.

"Mino has already taken it? Very good! After listening to Gao Xianda's report, Meng Yan was very satisfied with this, "We can start saying hello to Asai and Asakura!" ”