Samurai of the Takeda Family

In the castle tower of Chengshengcheng.

Li Xiao's eyes closed from the scenery outside the window and turned around.

Among the three floors of the Tianshou Pavilion, apart from Li Xiao, there is only Qiuzhen Yanwu. He is now looking respectful and bowing down in front of Li Xiao.

"But Master Ma Shou, I'm here to plead guilty."

Oh? Li Xiao smiled slightly, and asked knowingly, "Master Chikuqian Shou, where do you start?"

Shioya Qiuzhen leaned down even more and said, "Go back to Lord Tajima, before the Saito army came to attack, I was entrusted by Saito Niche to buy the adult’s subordinates and let him attack the city with the Saito army. At that time, he opened the gate of the city for internal response. In addition, he also provided Saito Niche with the military information of Kamoka Castle."

Li Xiao hummed softly. Li Xiao only learned about what Shioya Qiuzhen did. His ninjas only investigated afterwards. If he had no field battles at the time, he would adopt a strategy of defending the city.

At that time, the Otemon Gate of Kamioka Castle, it is very likely that the people who bought at Shioya Qiuzada, Naito Saito's house will offer the gate, and it will be breached. Kamioka Castle will be really dangerous at that time.

After the incident, Yokotani felt that he was dereliction of duty. For this reason, he specifically pleaded guilty to Li Xiao for failing to investigate the matter in time.

Li Xiao looked at Yanwu Qiuzhen again, he wanted to say something, if it's useful, why do you have to cut your belly?

At the beginning, Shioya Qiuzhen chose this way. From the perspective of the strong one he is attached to, it is understandable. Saito’s family is strong and Li Xiao’s family is weak. Both of them are counted as his partners. When he can only choose one, then his decision , It is also correct from its own consideration.

But at the moment this result can only be said that Shioya Qiuzhen's vision is too bad and she is on the wrong team.

Li Xiao thought for a while, then asked, "Master Chikuqian Shou, do you think it is useful to ask for sin?"

Shioya Qiuzhen shifted his fat body and said, "It depends on how Mr. Tajima Shou understands."

Oh? Li Xiao wanted to see how Yanwu Qiuzhen defended herself.

Shioya Qiuzhen said in a deep voice: "Zai Xia does violate the prestige of Tajima Shou-sama, but Xia is also due to love. Most of my family business in the Shioya business is in the city. If it is Saito Niche You can take it back. He uses this to coerce, and he really can't resist."

"So I ask Master Tajima Shou to understand that if you are an adult, if you are still unwilling to forgive you, you will cut your abdomen and apologize, but I also ask Master Tajima to protect my rights and interests of the salt house in Chengshengcheng. ."

Li Xiao snorted coldly, thinking that the salt house Qiuzhen came running so stubbornly, because he wanted to keep his salt house's business in Chengshengcheng.

As a merchant, Shioya Aksada's main sales route now is to transport salt from the town of Toyama, and then transport it to the castle town of Suwa Castle, the plateau of the Ema family.

In the current route, the two important rings of Chengshengcheng and Shengangcheng in the center were all stuck by Li Xiao. His main business was gone.

Yes, occupying Chengshengcheng, Li Xiao has already strangled the vital point of the Hida Yuezhong Passage.

If Li Xiao is willing, he can impose an embargo on important substances such as salt and grain at any time for the sister Xiaolu family and the inner island family.

The salt road passage is held, which is only one. For Shioya Qiuzhen, what’s more terrible is that his biggest business right now is the secret money exchange with Li Xiao in the Shengang Yinshan, and now it has to be watched. Li Xiao winked.

After learning about his opponent's hole cards, Li Xiao smiled slightly, saying how he played, Qiuzhen Yanwu would die in his own hands.

As long as he grasped the lifeblood of Chengshengcheng, Yanwu Qiuzhen would have survived, so what would happen to him? The salt room run by his Yanwu family for generations would soon collapse.

Killing him now is easy, but I can't get anything. In that case, use his life to make money for yourself.

In addition, there is another benefit to leaving Shioya Qiuzhen's life. Now that Saito Niche is dead, the secret of Ginzan Shinoka is only known to three vested interests: Li Xiao, Jiangma Fraser, and Shioya Qiuzhen.

If it is a sudden change of partner, let alone the trouble, if the matter is not secret, once the details of Shengang Silver Mountain are leaked out, he cannot bear the loss, so the cost is even greater.

After thinking about it, Li Xiao said: "Master Chikuqian Shou, your death is of no use. Have you ever thought that even if you die, I may not let your salt house go. Even if you let it go, there will be other things in the future. The businessmen came up and offered me better conditions to replace your salt house. By then, won’t your salt house also lose everything in Chengshengcheng?"

When Yanya Qiuzhen heard this, her forehead was full of sweat, her slightly fat body twisted uncomfortably, and she asked aloud: "Yes, but Master Ma Shou is right, but what can I do to atone for the crime? Please also show me."

Li Xiao smiled slightly and sat cross-legged in front of Qiuzhen Yanwu. He approached the other person and asked, "Master Yanwu, I know the rules of your businessmen. Cooperation is possible only when there is a common interest. Do you understand what I mean?"

Shioya Qiuzhen was shocked, she couldn't help reaching out her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, and holding her glasses down, swallowing a mouthful of water, saying, "I understand, please let me become your royal merchant Tajima Shou-sama. My salt house is willing to provide you with a thousand tranches of participation money every year."

Li Xiao shook his head and said: "Master Chikuqian Shou, you still don't understand. If I hadn't captured Chengshengcheng, if you proposed to be the royal merchant of my family, I would agree without hesitation. But now the situation is different again. At that time, I was not qualified to negotiate with you on Ranwen Novel, but now the situation between you and me has changed."

Shioya Qiuzhen took a deep breath, and said as if she had made up her mind: "Well, one thousand and five hundred cans a year, no more, otherwise even a penny of surplus will be earned in the next year. Not anymore."

Li Xiao laughed and said, "Master Chikuqian Shou, his words are not true. It is said that I know that your salt houses rely on Shengang Yinshan to operate the two-replacement houses, and the net profit of the salt road dealers for one year. , There are nearly five thousand Kan"

Yanwu Qiuzhen suddenly changed her expression and said, "Master Li Xiao, you are checking my details."

Li Xiao nodded and said, "Yes, but for me, it is absolutely necessary."

Yanwu Qiuzhen turned slumped, thinking about it for a while, and finally replied painfully: "One thousand and five hundred guan, just one thousand and five hundred guan. So, Lord Ma Shou, I can use my salt house as the queen merchant."

"No." Li Xiao still flatly refused.

This time Shioya Qiuzhen is really going to cry bitterly.

Li Xiao said unhurriedly: "You haven't understood what I mean. I said that only when there are common interests, can both parties have the possibility of cooperating. I can't see the conditions set by your Excellency. Where do common interests exist."

Shioya Qiuzhen almost cried and said: "Then Tajima Shou-sama, what is your idea? Please give me your advice."

Li Xiao laughed, but when he was strong, he had no sense of accomplishment while playing with others.

Li Xiao stretched out three fingers and said: "I want your salt house merchants to earn 30% of the profits each year."

Shioya Qiuzhen was surprised, and 30% of his profit, based on his current annual profit of nearly 5,000 guan, is also close to 1,500.

But the actual meaning is really different. The profit sharing is indeed as Li Xiao said, that the interests of him and the salt house are really tied together.

In the future, when his salt house business expands, Li Xiao will naturally earn more, and when his business shrinks, Li Xiao will also earn less.

In this way, it is necessary for the two sides to support each other. Li Xiao will give the salt house convenience as his lord, and the salt house can also make more profits, so the possibility of betraying each other is much smaller.

The decadence on Qiuzhen's face was gone, and with a ‘Oh’, she knelt down and said with a serious face: "So, I will ask Master Tajima Shou to take care of everything in the future."

Li Xiao nodded. Regarding Yanya Qiuzhen, in the future, he will use his shareholder status to slowly infiltrate the merchants and secretly monitor his actions.

This step will take two to three years.

It is enough for Qiuzhen to be loyal in the future. If not, she will find the opportunity to assassinate the opponent, and finally use the infiltrator to take over the salt house merchant for herself.

In this way, Li Xiao could earn more, but he wouldn't have done it unless Yanya Qiuzhen was unruly.

Firstly, Yanwu Qiuzhen has some talent in business, and it is a pity to kill this talent. Secondly, Li Xiao is still creditable and will not easily violate his promises.

However, in Li Xiao's view, as long as the interests of both parties are completely tied together, Yanwu Qiuzhen will not do this stupid thing as long as she has a brain.

Li Xiao leads the domestic economy, has the Tibetan Changan, and Yanwu Qiuzhen takes care of him, so he can also save a lot of worry.

The profit sharing of Salt House and Li Xiao is done once a year, and it is expected that by the end of the year, they will receive nearly 1,500 dividends.

With this extra income, Li Xiao is naturally very comfortable. This is just a subsidy. Takeda Shingen canceled the one-thousand-year direct salary subsidy he had previously given himself.

The reason for this family is also very good. Li Xiao is already a 20,000-stone family elder, and he can no longer receive the direct salary like the general servant at the time.

However, Li Xiao smashed all his savings in in order to build the iron cannon team of the Western State phalanx. At the moment, he is in a situation of economic crisis where his family has been wiped out.

To fight war is to fight money and economy. This is true.

Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen are indeed outstanding people in the world, but if the Takeda Uesugi family were not supported by Jinshan, it would be quite difficult for the two of them to get ahead in this troubled world.

Although Li Xiao is now a famous family elder with a height of 20,000 shi, his site has expanded a lot, but in fact his strategic position is extremely disadvantageous.

He controls the site now, it is a dumbbell, one in the Hida, the other in the Yuezhong, and in the middle is a difficult mountain road.

Usually it’s okay, but once it’s winter, the mountains are blocked by heavy snow and the mountain roads are blocked, so that the traffic between Shengang City and Chengsheng City will be interrupted. If there is an accident in either city, the two cities will be attacked by other forces. Can't echo each other.

If Li Xiao's 500 standing reserves were evenly distributed between the two cities, this would not work at all, and the defensive power would be even weaker.

According to Li Xiao's plan, he prepared to expand his army, and then expanded five hundred standing equipment, stationed in Chengsheng City and Shengang City respectively.

The recruitment of 500 standing staff is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.

To maintain five hundred standings, excluding other consumption, according to the annual salary of each standing seven guans, three thousand five hundred guans a year, plus one person for two people's support.

Just to maintain it, it costs more than 4,000 guana a year.

In addition, iron cannons, feet, spears, and swords are not counted.

Li Xiao couldn't help sighing, this separation of soldiers and peasants is really something wealthy people can afford.

Therefore, Li Xiao needs a large amount of funds if he wants to form these five hundred standings to defend the city.

Li Xiao now leads the three major incomes, Shinoka Yinshan, castle town commerce, and annual tribute to farmland.

Li Xiao’s greatest confidence to support the 1,000 standings is the presence of Shengang Yinshan, a big killer, opened in Chang'an, Tibet, and Shengang Yinshan’s tasks have been completed this year. Apart from the purchase of 80 iron cannons, It also helped Li Xiao maintain the three hundred standing expenses.

Therefore, all the output of Shinoka Silver Mountain has been exhausted this year.

As for the income of the castle town, it mainly comes from commerce and trade, but because it is autumn now, in a month, the highway of Etchu Hida will soon be covered by heavy snow. Therefore, the commercial income of Kamioka Castle, the castle town of Chengsheng Castle, is about to shrink significantly.

Therefore, this money is not expected.

Fortunately, Li Xiao has one last item, the annual tribute income from farmland this year.

The autumn harvest is about to begin. According to the ratio of three men and two people, Li Xiao will receive a total of 12,000 shi annual tribute income from 20,000 shi high territories.

With this income, Li Xiao can temporarily recruit his 500 stocks as an emergency.

However, part of these 2,000 shi must guarantee his 1,000 standing reserves after the expansion of the army, and the rations for the next year.

In order to expand the army, Li Xiao can only temporarily sell part of his army rations in exchange for copper coins.

By the end of the year, Li Xiao's life will be better. At that time, there will be dividends from salt houses and the expected output of Shengang Yinshan next year.

Li Xiao can temporarily tide over the economic crisis brought about by the expansion of the army.

The sale and purchase of military rations, designated by Li Xiao, shall be carried out by the royal merchant Qiuzhen Shioya at a unified purchase and sale price.

The advantage of unifying the purchase and sale price is that the purchase and sale prices of military grain are unified, that is, there will be no situation where grain is sold at a low price during the autumn harvest and the price of grain is expensive in the spring.

In this way, the benefits of Shioya Qiuzhen's imperial merchants were immediately revealed.

And the annual tribute income from buying and selling grains was to make money with the seasonal price difference. This was also the basic way of using agriculture as the main income at the time.

Daming practitioners should work like merchants on weekdays, buying food when the food is low, and selling food when the food is expensive.

Playing Taige Five, each time the daimyo judges, as a player as a retainer, he can choose this command to buy and sell military rations every time.

But in fact, Li Xiao's annual farmland tribute income this year has been hindered.

At the end of September, Yuezhongcheng Shengcheng, Hida Kamoka Castle, the autumn harvest in both places had ended.

The Three Thousand Stones of Hida Kamoka Castle were collected ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ but the Nine Thousand Stones of Chengsheng Castle did not let Li Xiao see a grain of rice.

The people Li Xiao sent to collect taxes in various villages were either politely, perfunctorily, or even deported.

After Li Xiao heard about it, he was furious. Since the martial arts took control of the world, Japan has levied taxes on the villages in the consular area.

Now the villages refuse to pay and even violently resist the law. How can this be tolerated?

However, Li Xiao sensed a hint of conspiracy. When he occupied Chengsheng City, the celebrities of the local villages had already acknowledged his status as the local lord and agreed to pay him annual tribute after the autumn harvest.

Why did these celebrities change their minds in less than a month?

There must be a reason for this.

Therefore, after Li Xiao inquired in detail about the people who had been sent back to the villages before, he realized that it was the ghost of the bald donkeys in the Hongan Temple. . ..

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