Chapter 220 24. Bei Hui Became Famous in Four Countries with One Shot
What was Kobayata's first reaction when he heard that Matsudaira Ieyasu had entered the country?
Of course he killed him!
May I ask everyone who is alive now? Who of you can live longer than Matsudaira Ieyasu? Competing for life span?
Matsudaira Ieyasu could have smiled contemptuously, no matter how strong you are, no matter how wild you are, no matter if you have the ability to live to 88!
He is now 18, and Kobayata is 26. He can live to 74, which means there are still 56 years. My goodness, Kobayata will be 82 by then, I dare not think about it. Not to mention 56 years, it is God's face to live another 36 years.
Kobayata can't even eat. Knowing this kind of thing, how can he eat with peace of mind.
"Or really find someone to kill him!" This thought in Kobayata's mind lingered for a long time. But this man is now Nobunaga's henchman, and the assassination level in this era is so low. If the assassination failed, the assassin was exposed, and Nobunaga finally knew that it was Kobayata who did it, then it would be a mess.
Although I am not afraid that Nobunaga will send troops across Mikawa Province to beat him for such a small matter, I finally have a close relationship with Nobunaga and leave myself some retreat. It is impossible to just abandon him casually.
Kobayata was secretly thinking about killing someone, and suddenly Tatsuzo opened the gate from the outside and sent the account book of the franchised goods presented from the outside.
The sales of straw products in Ejiri are undoubtedly very good, including Sukezaemon, who has repeatedly increased the share of the undertaking. Straw sandals, straw bags, straw ropes and so on are necessities of life. They will never be eliminated in the next two or three hundred years, and the sales have always been very good.
In addition, some people wonder why Ejiri can grow rush, but other places can't?
Ejiri is considered successful because Kobayata developed the flood discharge area. Let's use the two major production areas that have really developed in history to explain.
First of all, there is no doubt that rush can be grown in places with sufficient sunshine and warm climate, half of Japan can be grown, as long as there is a paddy field. This is a prerequisite, and everyone knows it.
Why did Tsuyama finally develop the grass industry? You may wish to Baidu the map. The Tsuyama Basin in Mimasaka Province, like the Kai Basin, is a rare flat land in the continuous mountains, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture. At the same time, because Tsuyama is located in a low-lying area between the mountains, the Yoshii River with abundant water flows through the entire basin. This allows the basin to develop high-quality paddy fields and grow countless rice.
But why don’t the people grow rice under such good conditions? The earth played a joke on them, and this joke is a bit poisonous.
The Tsuyama area is located near Okutsu Onsen, one of the "Three Hot Springs of Mimasaka", so what does such a famous and active hot spring bring? Naturally, countless sulfur! This leads to a high sulfur content in the Yoshii River. Then everyone found that something was wrong. The rice grown by this thing tasted wrong! It was deadly!
So naturally, the precious paddy fields in the Tsuyama area were used to plant rushes, and finally developed into the world-famous Tsuyama rice fields. This is not because they are so smart, but because of the pressure of life!
Another place is Usuki in Bungo Province. Why are the good paddy fields here used to plant grass?
Now when we look at the map, Japan may be placed in a rectangle and drawn upright, but in fact, Japan is oriented north-south on the earth. Bungo Province is located in the most ferocious typhoon area on the Pacific coast, and the terrain of Usuki is a small peninsula protruding.
Now you can understand it, it’s hard to plant rice, and then a typhoon comes in the summer, and all the rice is blown down. In the end, it rots in the field, and no grain is harvested.
If the typhoon doesn’t come every year, it’s fine, and everyone can get through it with gritted teeth. But in 1560, the Little Ice Age had already begun. Typhoons come every year, and each time is more fierce than the last. Then all those who insisted on growing rice starved to death, while those who knew how to adapt and grow rush grass that was not afraid of lodging survived by selling rush grass.
This is the reason, everything has a cause and effect. After all, few things are accomplished by people, and the environment promotes development.
The rush grass issue was separated, but the shell ash made Xiao Pingtai very troubled, because it was not famous and could not be effective immediately. The price was a little higher than ordinary plaster, and the sales volume was very small, only a few hundred bags. Several months had passed, and there was nothing to do.
Some people even suggested to Xiao Pingtai that the shell ash project should be cut off. Anyway, the straw products sold so well, and Yamauchi Yoshiharu was very satisfied. The shell ash was not a big deal, but Xiao Pingtai knew that this thing would be successful in the future, so he insisted on producing it at his own expense.
But this time, when he looked through the account book, Xiao Pingtai found that Zuoemon had actually ordered 2,000 bags at one time and had already picked up the goods.
This made Xiao Pingtai very happy, and he immediately asked Chen San to ask Zuoemon. This legendary genius businessman must have found a way, otherwise how could he place so many orders at once.
When Sukezaemon arrived, things turned out to be just as Koheita had expected, and Sukezaemon had found a big buyer.
Sukezaemon was always very serious about his work. He personally went to Kyushu to investigate the difference between Usuki and Ejiri. Because of the "Kuroshio", Sakai's trip to Kyushu was very fast, only one day and one night. That night he stopped at Sukumo in western Tosa.
In Sukumo, he heard a piece of news that the family elders of the right lieutenant general Ichijo, Ichijo Yasumasa, and Doi Munezan, ordered the merchants of Sukumo to purchase enough high-quality lime from Niimi, Bichugoku, to repair the walls of Nakamura Palace, which was damaged by flooding due to a fierce typhoon.
Jozaemon's business acumen burst out immediately, and he met the two ruling officials of the Ichijo family through the relationship of the Otomo family. They couldn't afford to give him face, after all, Lieutenant General Ichijo was the grandson of Otomo Yoshiaki. So he entrusted Jozaemon to purchase 200 bags of shell ash to repair part of the walls of Nakamura Palace, and other places still used lime.
As a result, this year, the other walls that were eroded by fierce wind and rain all suffered varying degrees of damage, which had a great impact on the castle with a wooden internal structure. However, the section of the wall repaired with shell ash was not only safe and sound in the strong winds of the cold winter season due to the strong weather resistance and waterproofness of shell ash. At the same time, it was no problem to experience heavy rains and was as bright and clean as new.
This surprised Doi Sosan and Ichijo Yasumasa, and they were very satisfied with the shell ash provided by Jozaemon. So they sent people to Sakai to find Naya, on the one hand to thank him, and on the other hand to ask Naya to immediately undertake 2,000 bags of shell ash to renovate Nakamura Palace.
Imai Munehisa didn't know about this at all, and heard that it was Jozaemon who undertook it. He immediately found him and praised him. He was very satisfied with him for winning over the big customer Tosa Ichijo, which led to his later order of shell ash.
Xiao Pingtai thought to himself, you are really good at doing business.