Chapter 181

Conception of Urbanization in Okayama Town

Chapter 181 Conception of Urbanization in Okayama Town

Although I don't know why, I originally wanted to seek the support of Hashiba Hideyoshi, but in the end, I signed a loan contract with sky-high interest rates.

A loan contract with a 5% single interest rate for 50 years is really a conscience price. You can’t compare the interest rate of your home loan with the imperialism of the old society. Even in later generations, the private lending rate with a negative interest rate of 16% Years later, the comprehensive interest rate also exceeded 3%.

As for the transfer of materials, Hideka needs to worry that many daimyos from Omi and Tanba will go to Okayama to assemble, and then the iron cannon, arrow feathers, and military rations will be transferred together.

When Xiujia left, he just thought that Hideyoshi asked for a receipt, allowing Xiujia to go directly to Sakai Port to purchase what he needed, and finally let the merchants in Sakai settle the bill directly with Hideyoshi, and the money will be deducted from the 5 guanjun funds .

At this moment, Xiujia suddenly thought of a profitable bank note business, which can be developed on the basis of the original money house.

In the current old Japanese society, when big merchants were doing business, they needed to carry a large amount of copper coins for transactions. These copper coins were strung up with straw ropes, packed in boxes and transported to specific destinations to purchase goods.

For this purpose, merchants need to pay additional fees for boats, horses and horses, labor fees, and security fees for hiring ronalds.

For example, after Hideka took over all the armament workshops of Osafune to Ukido, Osafune was in charge of production and was not allowed to resell them locally. All transactions had to be handled in Okayama Town, which was equivalent to a city in the old days to a certain extent. chemical movement.

The advantage of this is that Ukita's town office can fully understand the sales of armaments, and collect a town tax of 1% of the transaction amount from it. This may be the earliest form of extra-price tax.

But the premise of all this is that the goods that can be strictly controlled, such as knives, guns, tools, bizen celadon, white salt, and gunpowder, which are monopolized by Yuxijia, are monopolized by Yuxijia and are not allowed to be bought or sold by private individuals. A certain tax burden is charged on the basis of profits.

For other products, due to reasons such as science and technology, it is impossible for Xiujia to apportion the tax burden to the product itself. It is only possible for the merchant to collect the entry tax once when the product is transported into the city. Although this tax method is extremely Falling behind, but there is no way.

Let’s get back to the topic. After Ukido concentrated certain products in Okayama Town, it drove the development of Okayama Town, and it also made it easier for merchants not to go down to the production areas of various specialty products to buy products, and then transfer them to the port by themselves.

And under the premise of Xiujia's "urbanization" changes, if it is more convenient for merchants to do business, wouldn't it be able to further promote the development of Gangshan Town?

To put it simply, merchants in Kyoto, Sakaimachi, and Owari Tsuda can deposit money in the local money exchange houses controlled by Ukido, receive silver tickets and then go to the destination with light clothes, and conduct business transactions directly at the destination. The ticket stub can be used to withdraw copper coins directly at the local money change house.

Of course, all of this is Xiujia's idea, just like when he attacked Sanuki, he wanted to arrange the business of the money house because of the gold transaction with the southern barbarians, but this work has not yet started.

The main reason is that Yuxi's family can't afford so much money to invest in the financial industry at present, and Xiu's family has been fighting all year round, so they don't have so much time to personally give financial classes and explain financial knowledge to Ding Fengxing and other concentric people.

All of this has to wait for Kyushu to settle down, and the world will be basically safe before it can start to operate, but the Xiu family still secretly records this matter as one of the businesses that they must fight in the future.

When Xiu's family came out of Sakamoto Castle, Zhuang Qingzhi had already found a husband for Xiu's family, and was going to help Xiu's family carry the globe back.

Eight people carrying such a big guy is really attractive. As for why they didn't talk about putting things on the carriage, I have said it many times before.

Because Japan has many mountains and little land, most of the flat land is developed as farmland.Even the main roads such as Jinai Road, Dongkai Road, Zhongshan Road, etc., mostly pass through the middle of the fields, and the width of the road is only twice as wide as that of the Qianmo Trail. The main road was built to accommodate 2 carriages.

In addition, the Hide family had to cross Mt. Hiei to return to Kyoto, and it was even more inconvenient to use a horse-drawn carriage to get to Beijing from Xiaoguan. As a result, the Hide family could only hire 8 civilian husbands to carry the globe around the market like this.

The citizens of old Japan had never seen a globe. To them, it was just a decoration for the lord's daimyo. It was only because of its size that it attracted everyone's attention.

And Zhuang Zhiqing and Qing Shuixin also looked around the globe before Xiujia went down to the city. The contents on it were all written in German. The map goes to the corresponding set position, but the Japanese drawn by the Dutch businessman himself is marked in Chinese.

Seeing Xiu's arrival, the two brought their attendants, warriors and civilian husbands to salute Xiu's family, and then asked Xiu's family, "Your Highness, is this Japan? Is this where we are standing?"

Xiujia looked at where their fingers were pointing at, drawing three islands distortedly, nodded and said, "This is Japan."

"Skuyi~" Xiujia's affirmation attracted the admiration of the two, and they stared at the globe even more excitedly, "Is Japan so small? The world is so big!"

On the contrary, Shimizu Xin also said with some doubts, "If it is a map of the world, why should it be made into a spherical shape? Is it to save materials?"

At this time, Xiujia had already got on the horse with the help of the samurai. He turned his head and said to them flatly, "Because the world is spherical, you can start from Japan and sail along the continental shelf. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, you can sail along the continental shelf." Come back to Japan!"

This geography knowledge, which is known to elementary school students in later generations, seems to be thrown into the cognition of the two of them, "Is the world round?"

Having lived with the Xiu family for a long time, many second-generation warriors in the family have an obsessive trust in the Xiu family, and they firmly believe in what he said, so when the Xiu family utters this information that subverts the cognitive concept, they will not Like the Hashiba Hideyoshi brothers, they chose to question, but carefully examined the globe again.

How could the Hide family allow the two of them to waste time under Sakamoto Castle like this, and could only say to them, "Uncle Uncle has given me this globe, and I am going to move to Okayama. After you go back, you will have time to think about it slowly. Let's go back to Beijing now."

In this way, Hideka's team was finally able to move, and came to the outskirts of Kyoto after sunset. At this time, there was a curfew in Kyoto at night, and the governor of Kyoto, Masuda Nagamori, was fully responsible.

But this kind of curfew is only for the little people. Facing the Sawajiri and sword-cutting patterns held high in the Xiujia queue, the samurai guarding the pass did not dare to block it at all, and respectfully let go of the refusal When the Xiu family came in, they were very respectful and greeted the Xiu family, "His Royal Highness the left gate guard is back."

This is also helpless, although the Hide family is now the governor of the Bizen Hashiba family, the most powerful daimyo in the Hashiba family, and also holds the official position of the left gate guard. How dare they complain about the nominally direct superiors to the Xiu family.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xiujia saw that these folks from Omi had no place to live, besides the curfew at the moment, let them temporarily live in their mansion, and at the same time informed everyone that they would leave for Sakaicho tomorrow morning.

Hideka was going to buy some more iron cannons in Sakai-cho, and then go back to Okayama by boat, which would not only save some time on the way.

Just when Xiujia was about to go to bed early, an uninvited guest suddenly visited, disrupting Xiujia's plan.

 There are some private matters in the past two days, friends in the group should know, but please don't comment casually in the message area, thank you.

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