Chapter 308 41. The Generals Share 7,000 Strings of Cash
Watching Sukezaemon leave, Kobayata's mind showed the stunning figure.
"Tatsuzo, do you still remember Oda Kamisuke's sister?" Kobayata looked at Tatsuzo who was standing beside him.
"She is really very beautiful. I wonder which adult is lucky enough to marry her home." Tatsuzo's face showed a yearning and expectation for beauty.
Oda Nobuhide had more than a dozen daughters. When Kobayata went to Kiyosu, he brought four or five of them out to meet people. But without a doubt, the most beautiful one was Oda Ichi.
Even though the others were also very beautiful, they were still inferior to Aichi.
The two people did not mention the name of Ichi at all. After hearing about the princess of the Oda family, the first person they thought of was Aichi. In fact, Aichi's brilliance has overshadowed everyone else, and it is difficult to leave an impression.
"It seems that the Ichi princess is going to marry Asai Bizen-no-kami!" "Asai Bizen-no-kami? How did you decide?" Tatsuzo was a little puzzled.
After all, Sukezaemon just said that the Oda family was going to marry the Asai family, but he didn't mention which daughter of the Oda family was going to marry. Kobayata actually immediately identified it as Oda Ichi, which made Chen San confused.
"Think about it, Owari Kamisuke has many sisters, but how many of them are of the right age to get married now?" "Ah! It seems that there is only one Princess Ichi!"
Kobayata nodded.
"The wife of Mino's Saito Kyōshō is the sister of Asai Bizen-no-kami, and Kamisuke's wife is the sister of Saito Kyōshō. They are all legitimate daughters. If he wants to win over the 90,000 kan daimyo of northern Omi, Kamisuke must have this minimum sincerity."
"So, Asai Bizen-no-kami is really lucky to marry such a beautiful and charming Princess Ichi." Chen San clicked his tongue, showing the most basic envy of a man.
"I just don't know what kind of person this Asai Bizen-no-kami is. Have you heard of him?" Chen San was naturally curious about what kind of person Asai Nagamasa was.
"Brave and brave, benevolent and loving, and magnanimous." "So he is a good samurai."
"It's a pity that he is indecisive and has a dilemma between friendship and loyalty." "Hmm? What Danzheng said seems to be two people. Are they both Asai Bizen-no-kami?"
"Really? I hope not!" Kobayata turned and went back to the house.
Tatsuzo didn't understand what Kobayata meant, but he didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he closed the door naturally, took off his shoes and went into the house.
"By the way, Asai Bizen-no-kami is also a rare fat man. It is said that he has a big round face and a big waist. Hahahahaha..." Kobayata turned around and suddenly said this.
Tatsuzo was left with a look of astonishment.
It is impossible to go public. There is no chance to go public in this life.
Kobayata, who cannot go public, chooses to consider the huge sum of 30,450 kan of money. 7,000 kan is the persimmon lacquer fund of the Yamauchi samurai, and it must be put back to the original place and continue to invest in the production and operation of persimmon lacquer.
What to do with the remaining 23,350 kan?
Keep it all for yourself? Of course you can. Anyway, everyone thought that it was a business done by the house, and the money would not be discovered if it was kept in the house. Sukezaemon would not be so shallow as to reveal this matter or swallow up Kobayata's money.
But such a large sum of money would be exposed as soon as it was used, and it would definitely not be concealed. No one would take Kobayata's identity seriously if he spent 3500 kan, after all, Kobayata was rich.
But 3500, 5000, 10000 kan was enough to bribe Takeda Katsuyori's soldiers to come to the rescue, so you can see how much money it was. It would definitely be discovered and could not be covered up.
Divide the spoils? How to divide it? Kobayata did not have a penny of the 7000 kan as capital, and the money of him and his uncle Tsunayoshi was invested in the operation of persimmon lacquer in advance. Otherwise, all the Yamauchi samurai would not have raised funds for him to run the persimmon lacquer, and these were all the coffin money of the Yamauchi samurai.
For the convenience of spending money in the future, Kobayata decided to divide the spoils.
As for how much to divide? How to divide it? Isn't it just a matter of Koyata's words? It's definitely not a big problem for him to swallow up the bulk of the money.
He did it as soon as he said it. Koyata first took Aji back from the hatamoto, and then took Heiroku back from the magistrate.
Let Aji take dozens of foot soldiers from his hatamoto, and let Heiroku check the accounts. He hired dozens of porters with great fanfare, borrowed carriages and horses from several samurai families nearby, and went to get the money.
The Naya Yamauchi branch is now full of money. Koyata said he wanted to take it, and immediately the confidant of Saemon handed it over to Koyata.
Koyata rounded up the whole number and took 7,000 foot kan, and told Heiroku to deliver the money door to door according to the original fundraising account book.
Of course, he went to his father-in-law's house to present the treasure, and then went to check the accounts with Yamauchi Yoshiharu.
"My lord, I'm sorry, son-in-law, how are you doing recently." Koyata sat down politely.
"Why did you send a thousand kan here, Koyata?" Hosokawa Harumiya was very surprised. It wasn't a betrothal, so why did Koyata suddenly send so much money?
He watched Mrs. Hosokawa call on her family and servants to take the piles of copper coins, filling up a corner of the warehouse at home.
"Please forgive me, sir. After the last fund-raising, I felt that it was a pity to leave such a huge amount of money idle, so I started a small business. This thousand kan is a good thing." Koyata was the first to come to Hosokawa Harumiya. Of course, he hoped to borrow his reputation among the Yamanouchi samurai to first determine the nature of the temporary loan.
"Does your highness know?" Hosokawa Harumiya took a look at Koyata, and then asked the key point.
"It has not been reported yet." Koyata smiled very warmly.
"You kid, you sent me here first, but you want me, an old man, to help you get out of this!" Hosokawa Harumiya saw through Koyata's thoughts at a glance.
After all, it was legal for Koyata to raise funds, and it was okay to spend money, but everyone agreed that the money would be used to produce persimmon lacquer, and Koyata embezzled it after all. This matter can be big or small, but now it can double the profit, plus Hosokawa Harumiya's turn, everyone must be happy.
"Koyata, how much did you get yourself?" Hosokawa Harumiya, who was riding on a horse, asked casually.
"Not much, not much, just that little." "A Ling's three ceremonies have passed, you should quickly build a house for yourself, so that you can live in a new home, and you must be more decent, you can't always live with Saemon."
It turned out that seeing Koyata getting money, they wanted Koyata to quickly get a house for the wedding.
"Yes, yes, your Excellency is right. I will do it when I go back." How could Koyata not obey.
After entering the city, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu had no complaints when he saw the 1,000 kan in cash. After all, their capital had not been lost and their profits had reached 100%.
He told them that they should report in advance if they wanted to borrow funds from the fund raising and not to operate alone, and then he happily went to see the money deposited.
As they were talking happily, a violent explosion was heard from the city!