Chapter 237 11. Seemingly Legal Fundraising

Hosokawa Harunomiya remained calm on the surface, saying nothing, but when he opened his mouth, he would invest 1,000 kan, directly taking one-third of the shares.

At this time, all the samurai retainers present reacted. You guys are still hesitating, but others have already made their move. The old ones are still the best, and you have to admit it.

So the retainers who participated in the last fundraising of Kodaira Taimoku La did not even want the private money of their wives and powder money, and knelt down together: "Your Highness! ~~~~"

Moku La's annual income is 7,000 to 8,000 kan. Even if Yamanouchi Yoshiharu takes half of it, the remaining dozen big bosses who participated in it range from 100 kan to nearly 1,000 kan. They are very comfortable with cash. In this era, samurai were not ashamed to talk about money at all. There are many records of famous samurai expressing their views on money.

Asakura So's old man said that money should be spent on the tip of the knife. If I have 100 kan, I will not buy a famous sword, but would rather buy 100 long spears and arm 100 soldiers.

Everyone wanted to make money to expand the military, otherwise why did Oda Nobunaga attach so much importance to the Tsushima clan? It was because of the huge wealth provided by Tsushima. With this wealth, he was able to rely on half of Owari to fight east and west and repeatedly raise troops.

"It's a bit difficult for you to raise funds for the persimmon lacquer by yourself, right?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu finally spoke.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu said sincerely, and Xiao Pingtai felt sad. Hundreds of famous samurai at the top of Japanese society were racking their brains and trying to find a way for a small capital of a few thousand or ten thousand kan. Japan is a small country with poor people, and the weakness of the people can be seen.

No wonder he went to Korea later, which was considered a glamorous world, and he wanted to rob it. When Yuan Shikai was guarding Korea, he once calculated that Korea's annual total income was about 5 million taels of silver, which was already miserable. But to tell a more miserable fact, Korea exported more than 10,000 catties of Korean ginseng every year, and each catty was sold for 90 to 200 taels of silver. The annual export value of Korean ginseng alone is equivalent to more than one-third of the total annual income of the entire Joseon Dynasty.

The wealth of their big business groups is more than that of the national treasury. Now you can understand why Korean conglomerates are so powerful. They have this tradition, and it is not achieved overnight.

We think that North Korea is already very poor, but in fact Japan is even poorer. A conglomerate that shook the Osaka business community with a stomp of its feet, and was later dismembered by the US military after the end of World War II. In the Edo period, it was already a big business house known as "Osaka's anger, the world's princes are three points shocked". After the death of the big boss, how much money was on the books?

I'm not afraid of being laughed at by everyone. A total of 70,000 taels of silver. Of course, his fixed assets are three to five times more, but a business house with this little money is already a leader in the Japanese business community.

Now it is not difficult for everyone to understand the pride of Sakaimachi, Izumi Province, which is known as the world's first international metropolis and has a population of 100,000, when it presented 20,000 kan to Oda Nobunaga.

"Koyata, I'll make a move for you. We'll count the persimmon lacquer as ten shares, each worth 1,000 kan, and you and Saemon will make up one share. In this way, your family will take three shares, and Harumiya and I will each take one share, and the remaining five shares will be raised by everyone. Let's get this done as soon as possible, okay?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu persuaded.

What else can Koyata do? He is really poor. Although money comes quickly, it also goes quickly. Moreover, a mere investment of 10,000 kan can be taken out by any powerful businessman in any prefecture in China. But in Japan, it takes a powerful and powerful name with 600,000 koku to mobilize all the middle and high-level samurai in the territory, and everyone can try to raise it by exhausting their savings.

"Everything depends on the lord's orders!" Koyata didn't expect the investment to be so large. Now he is in a dilemma and has to do it.

Now all the samurai present are active. Anyway, the Yamauchi family gradually implements the collective residence of retainers, and everyone's homes are actually under the Fuchu Castle. The wife, children and property all live in the city, so it is very convenient to get money. Just say the amount and you can go home to get the money immediately.

Soon, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu discussed with several people from the Yamanouchi clan. Imagawa Yoshichika was the worst, with nothing. On the surface, he had tens of thousands of kan of territory in Suruga Shita County and Totomi Makino, but he still had to rely on his father to make up for it until the autumn tribute collection.

The palms and backs of the hands are all flesh and blood. The foundation belongs to the eldest son. The younger son has worked hard to occupy a little territory, so he can't treat him too badly. Yamanouchi Yoshiharu decided to pay 500 kan for Imagawa Yoshichika and 500 kan for Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu. Yamanouchi Shuketou was the scribe of the imperial relatives, and he and a group of relatives, uncles and cousins ​​also paid 1,000 kan.

Hosokawa Harumiya had expressed his position here. The elders of the imperial family were all samurai for generations, not to mention that they had made money from the previous wax business, so they all raised their hands in favor this time. The distribution plan was passed in a few words, and 1,500 kan was immediately collected. It was not difficult for them to come up with 200 to 300 kan per family, and 100 kan was just a small amount.

Finally, the middle-level samurai of the hatamoto and heridai were included. Their salaries were generally not much, and most of them were concentrated in 100 to 200 kan. Almost no one knew how to do it. They all lived on a fixed salary. Apart from being rewarded for their meritorious service on the battlefield, there were almost no ways to make money.

So even though this group of people was the largest, with nearly 50 or 60 people, they only collected 1,500 kan.

But now it's good. After a few years, Xiao Pingtai's business will be successful. In the future, he can also earn dozens of kan a year, which will be of great benefit to the family.

Then Hosokawa Harukiya wrote the names of nearly 100 samurai who contributed on a thick and tough mulberry paper, and wrote down the amount of each person's contribution. Finally, he noted the content of sharing risks and distributing profits fairly.

Everyone came up one by one in order to sign and stamp their fingerprints, just like the Tiandihui beheading chickens, burning yellow paper, and swearing blood oaths.

After signing, it was a pledge of surrender. The followers who were originally chatting and bragging at the city gate were suddenly summoned into the city. The whole Yamanouchi was a scene of great beauty. The servants and family members of each family carried wooden boxes, backpacks, and even drove livestock. Hundreds and thousands of people entered the city with property worth thousands of kan.

The townspeople under the city were confused. Were all the samurai of the Yamanouchi family kidnapped? Were they collectively entering the city to pay for ransom? At this time, if a group of strong men came to block the road and robbed money along the street, it would be enough for them to eat for a lifetime.

To be honest, everyone often saw property worth one or two hundred kan. After all, there were no low-level samurai present. One or two thousand strings of money were often used as rewards for wars, but seven thousand strings of gold, silver and copper coins piled under the corridor were not much different from a mountain of money.

Everyone now had an expression that said, "We have given you all the coffins in the mountain, so you can't joke with us."

Xiao Pingtai suddenly felt that this thing was like illegal fundraising, and he couldn't help but tremble three times because he had the urge to urinate.

Illegal fundraising, starting from five years, up to life imprisonment!

It seems that the time of automatic release was set wrong.