Samurai of the Takeda Family

Just after the Hida Expeditionary Army in the Yamaxian County commanded the Hida Allied Forces to break the Sister Alley, the Uchishima family.

Li Xiao bid farewell to Changjing in Shan County and proposed that he would lead his army back to Shengang City.

Li Xiao's request surprised Changjing in Shan County. In the first battle yesterday, Li Xiao led the left-wing army to defeat the Hida Hao coalition forces, laying the foundation for the victory of the entire battle.

In terms of military merits, Li Xiao is a well-deserved merit.

The overall situation for Hida is now set. As long as the Sakura Cave City is breached, Sister Xiaolu's family can be completely wiped out. If Sister Xiaolu's family is destroyed, the remaining Inner Island family will inevitably be left alone, waiting for their fate.

But at this time when picking peaches and sharing the fruits of victory, Li Xiao offered to lead his troops back to Shengang City, which is quite puzzling.

Changjing in Shanxian County is a kind man, and assured Li Xiao that he will go to Lord Xinxuan for his great achievements in defeating the Feida coalition in this decisive battle and let him reward Li Xiao.

When Li Xiao heard this, he didn't take it seriously, and then said something righteous and serious, to the effect that I was fighting for my Takeda family to dominate the world, and I didn't ask for awards or other high-profile words.

At first everyone thought that Li Xiao was a Qianci.

As a result, Li Xiao led his two hundred standing guards back to Shengang City, and Jiangma Fraser also left and took his three hundred troops back to the plateau Suwa City.

Now everyone believes it. Shanxian Changjing is in awe of Li Xiao's actions, while Yoshichang Kiso is secretly delighted because he missed Li Xiao's share of the pie.

On the way Li Xiao led the army back to Shengang City, Dao Shengmeng, Shigang Yiyu and others were also puzzled, and they were puzzled by Li Xiao's actions.

Li Xiao didn't explain this either, just chuckled in his stomach, they didn't understand, this is where the strength of the traverser lies.

It was precisely because Li Xiao knew that in history, the Takeda family’s plan to attack Hida was influenced by Kenshin Uesugi’s fifth troop dispatch to Kawasaki Island, that was why he was unable to achieve full success, leading to the result of the previous hard fight. So Li Xiao was ahead of schedule. Withdrawing troops.

Although for the Takeda family, this expedition to Hida was halfway, but for Li Xiao it was a great gain.

The biggest gain is that the forces of the two great families of Hida, the sister Xiaolu family and the inner island family, suffered heavy losses after this battle, and their strength was greatly weakened.

According to Li Xiao’s prediction, after this battle, the Sister Xiaolu family, the inner island family, and the soldiers were damaged, and in order to prepare for this life-and-death battle, almost all the peasants and soldiers in their territory were mobilized, regardless of whether they were defeated or defeated. Almost all of this year's agriculture has been abolished, so within this year, it is impossible for these two companies to send out military forces to fight.

And if the vitality before the war is to be restored, it will take at least two to three years for the two families.

This means that if Li Xiao dispatches troops to the middle of the country within this year, he can do his best without any worries.

If it is a different situation, if it is not for Li Xiao to foresee the news that Uesugi Kenshin sent troops to Chuanakajima, then the sister Kolu family and the Uchijima family will be eradicated by the Takeda family after this battle.

Although at that time, Li Xiao can gain a large fief in Hida with his military exploits, but according to the previous agreement, Shingen Takeda will also let the Kiso family share this achievement, but the Kiso family will definitely join the Hida power. between.

This is equivalent to the Hida country that Li Xiao regards as his own one-acre three-quarters of land, and it is crossed by others.

Moreover, based on the current bad relationship between Li Xiao and the Kiso family, if the other party's forces penetrated into Hida and spied out their own information on Ginzan Kamioka, it would be very bad.

For Li Xiao, the Silver Mountain of Shengang is equivalent to a place of knowledge of seven to eighty thousand stone high. If he is required to pay the price of revealing the secrets of Silver Mountain of Shengang for a barren land that is only a few thousand stone high by Hida, That would be too costly.

After all, Shengang Yinshan is still in the hands of the Jiangma family in name, and the stone height is also a secret to others, so even if the sister Xiaolu family, the Uchishima family knows a little about Shengang Yinshan. , But also didn't want to reveal this secret, and let Takeda Shingen know about it.

Such a consequence is just a vain increase in the strength of the Takeda family.

And if Yoshichang Kiso knew, the situation would be very different. As a birdman, Yoshichang Kiso would just dream of keeping a secret for Li Xiao.

Therefore, the result of this battle in Sakura Cave City is very satisfactory to Li Xiao.

But now Li Xiao hurried back to Shengang City because he was preparing to use troops against Yuezhong.

On the second day of the battle in Yingdong City, Li Xiao led his two hundred standings and returned to Shengang City.

After Li Xiao returned to the castle, he first listened to the Great Zang Changan, who is now serving as the Shinooka Ginyama Enshrine and concurrently serving as the town, to get an overview of the recent exhibitions in the castle town.

Under the renovation of Dazo Chang'an, the street shops and residential areas of Merchant Artisan Town and Machining Town have been built to approximate scale, and the longhouse for the newly added 300 standing houses has also been repaired.

The earliest construction purpose in the castle town was for the administration of the castle lord and the residence of the samurai. In the general castle town, the proportion of the population of the samurai reached 50%.

After arriving, the separation of special soldiers and farmers and the establishment of a standing army led to a larger population and larger scale of the castle town.

Take Toyotomi Hideyoshi as an example. In the 20th year of Tensho, even in 1592, its standing capacity reached more than 20,000, and the standing facilities were also stationed in the castle town.

For example, there are 500 people standing in the town of Kamioka, Li Xiao, and nearly a thousand people, including their families, have also moved into the town and lived with them.

Coupled with the 500 people stationed in Ginzan Kamioka, the total population of Kamioka-no-cho has reached more than two thousand.

The population of two to three thousand is basically the average number of towns in Japan in the mid-sixteenth century. The towns with more than 10,000 at that time were mostly located in the densely populated Kinki, but there were also in other regions, but not many.

At that time, the larger castle towns, such as Ichijo Taninocho, Sakata-no-cho, and Odawara-no-cho, had a population of over 10,000.

Even after Oda Nobunaga's residence castle Azuchi, the population of the castle town was about 2,000 samurai and 7,000 merchants, and the population barely hovered around 10,000.

In the future, the town of Edo, known as the city of a million people, now has a population of only a hundred households.

At present, in the town of Kamioka, more than 2,000 people are needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation every day, and various industries must be entered. This intangible is a big potential business opportunity.

For daily necessities such as rice house, oil house, and salt house, shrewd businessmen like Shioya Qiuzhen have already taken the lead in getting a spot in Kamiokacho.

Li Xiao firmly believes that as for other Wufu houses, large workshops, blacksmithing houses, and konny houses, when the conditions are ripe, they will increasingly be listed in the town of Kamioka.

Yanya Qiuzhen had previously promised Li Xiao to rebuild the streets from Chengshengcheng to Shengangcheng, and the repairs have also been completed.

Now on this channel, Li Xiao’s ash-blown silver mined from Shengang Silver Mountain was secretly exchanged for a lot of Yongle Tongbao, military rations, salt, and designated substances. At the same time, he also continued to enter Shengang. In the city.

Except for a large part of the money invested in the formation and use of standing, the rest was invested by Li Xiao into the city town exhibition.

Seeing the prosperity of his castle town, Li Xiao felt a sense of expectation for the future, because the increase in the population of the castle town meant the prosperity of business.

Under the prosperous business, it means that Li Xiao's tax collection from the castle town has increased, becoming the third income besides farmland taxation and mines.

At the end of the Warring States period, because of the importance of commerce by the Oda family and the rise of mines, many famous masters followed suit and no longer regarded the annual tribute of land as their main income, and instead increased their business development.

In the case of the Andong family of the 6 Austrian countries, in the year of the Sekihara War, the income other than the annual tribute of land was the income of the annual tribute.

Although the castle town of Kamioka Castle in front of Li Xiao's eyes is not yet formed, it can be expected that future exhibitions will become an important passage for the Takeda family into Vietchu.

As long as the Takeda family continues to implement the three-way plan to attack Echigo, Kamioka-no-cho will be an important transit point, and business opportunities will continue to increase in the future.

However, the drawbacks of the town of Kamioka are also very obvious. There are only seven months of trading a year, and the inconvenience of roads is a restriction that further restricts the continued expansion of the castle town.

However, based on the expected estimates given to Li Xiao by the Tibetan Changan, Ranwen Novel Network at this time next year, the town of Shengang will bring Li Xiao considerable commercial benefits.

After listening to the report from Tibetan Chang'an, Li Xiao was very satisfied with the exhibition in the consulate.

In addition to the current situation, Dazang Changan also put forward two ideas. One is to reclaim new fields. Because the population of the castle town is now increasing, Hida's local food is gradually insufficient.

And if from Etchu, Shinano transported grain to Hida. Then the price of food will rise because of the consumption of distance.

To a large extent, this has restricted the development of the existing economic prosperity.

Therefore, Dazang Changan proposed that in the middle of next year, farmers should be encouraged to rectify water conservancy and reclaim new fields by a large margin in order to increase the supply of Hida's local food.

At the same time, the increase of Xintian can also increase the stone height under Li Xiao's leadership, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

However, Li Xiao has another opinion on this, because considering the highland climate of Hida, the mountainous terrain, the cultivation of rice, wheat and other grains on display does not have much future.

On the contrary, food crops such as potatoes and corn are not only hardy, but also suitable for cultivation in mountainous areas where the land is poor.

Based on Li Xiao's experience in farming from the starting point yy, in the late Ming Dynasty, potatoes and corn were introduced to China by the Spanish, and in the Qing Dynasty, these two crops, as well as sweet potatoes, supported the subsequent population expansion in China.

But for Li Xiao now, Hida is a mountainous area, because the news is blocked, it is still a big problem to go to the Spanish and Mingguo to introduce potatoes and corn.

Li Xiao's next step is to send the ninja crowd to contact this matter to see if he can contact the Spaniards.

Then Dazang Changan put forward a second idea to Li Xiao, which is to implement a monopoly on the sale of salt in the town of Kamioka.

The meaning of Daizo Changan’s proposal is that all customs clearance salt goods entering the Hida country from the town of Kamioka can only be traded in the town of Kamioka.

In this way, the town of Kamioka will become the salt distribution center of the entire Hida. Most people who want to buy salt in Hida country can only go through Kamioka Castle. This will not only increase taxation, but also further increase the prosperity of the castle town. .

Salt is definitely a monopolistic strategic material for Hida, the six countries in the mountainous region.

Therefore, in Shengang City, such a major channel, monopolizing the salt industry is definitely a big profit.

This is something that Oda Nobunaga has done in history.

After he built Azuchi Castle, in order to increase the commercial income of Azuchi Town, he made a rigid rule that the sale of horses within the territory can only be carried out in Azuchi Town.

Li Xiao shook his head when he heard it. The idea of ​​Da Zang Changan was very good, but he didn't consider the actual situation.

At present, the Hida country salt industry is mainly monopolized by Shioya Qiuzada. In this era when Rakuza Raku City was not implemented, dealers such as Shioya Qiusada had great power, which meant that they monopolized the entire salt industry of Hida.

If it is true according to the proposal of Dazang Changan, the mandatory implementation of salt trading in the town of Kamioka will definitely touch the fundamental interests of Shioya Akuzada.

When the time comes, Yanwu Qiuzhen will probably turn his face with Li Xiao. If he becomes angry, he will impose a salt industry embargo on Feida Country.

Then the price of salt in Li Xiao's leader is soaring, and the leaders are likely to riot. When the time comes, the lord of Ranwen Novel Network itself will be difficult to handle.

In addition, Shioya Qiuzhen had another option, that is, instead of passing through Kamioka Castle, he moved to the territory of the current sister Xiaolu family, and the same was true for transporting salt from Vietnam to Hida.

The only thing he needs to do is to take a long way around, but Li Xiao can't make a penny, and he suffers a lot.

The Tibetan Changan looked rather frustrated when he saw that neither of his opinions had been approved by Li Xiao.

But Li Xiao immediately comforted Chang'an, the Tibetan Tibetan. Although his opinion was not passed by himself, his two ideas really gave him a good inspiration.

In particular, the second idea is to implement a monopoly in the salt industry, which may not work now, but if Li Xiao can capture Saito's Chengsheng City in the future, the situation will be different at this time.

Conquering Chengshengcheng meant that Li Xiao had gained a stronghold in Yuezhong, and the local salt merchant was definitely more than Yanya Qiuzhen.

At that time, Li Xiao can contact other Vietnamese and Chinese salt merchants without going through the salt house Qiuzhen, which can break the monopoly of the other party and implement free market trade.

And at this time, Li Xiao already had Chengshengcheng and Shengangcheng two Hida, a stronghold for the entry and exit of Yuezhong.

At that time, Yanwu Qiuzhen wanted to take a detour to transport salt, so he would go to the mountains and take dozens of miles of mountain roads.

In this way, Li Xiao has full confidence in the implementation of the plan of compulsory salt trading in Chang'an.

And this forced salt transaction was only the first step, and Li Xiao thought of the more far-reaching incident of the famous Takeda family salt cut.

Historically, because of Takeda Yoshinobu's rebellion ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, Shingen Takeda's intention to attack the Imagawa family was revealed in advance.

Therefore, the Imagawa clan used Takeda Shingen to destroy the Kosang-Soon Three Kingdoms Alliance as a reason, and joined the Hojo clan to impose a salt embargo on the Takeda clan.

This move caused a temporary rise in the price of salt in the Takeda family in six mountainous countries.

Li Xiao foresaw this situation in history, and it was precisely through the monopoly of the salt industry that he hoarded salt.

Once the salt crisis within the Takeda family appeared, he could immediately transport salt to Shinano and Kai.

In this way, you can not only make Li Xiao's reputation of the master's family when in crisis, but also make a fortune by taking this opportunity. Why not do it.

The only pity is that Uesugi Kenshin’s story of "giving salt to the enemy" in history seems to be lost.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao unconsciously showed a smile on his face. The plan is very good, but the premise of this plan is that the city of Yuezhong must be captured as a prerequisite. . ..

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