Chapter 329 19. Place Trusted People to Gain Financial Power

Looking at the high-spirited Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, Kobayata also felt as if he was in another world.

It has been many years since he traveled through time, and the years have passed so quickly. Everything is so real, and so unreal.

"Kobayata, although you have been appointed as the Kanjo Bugyo, there is no need to make a big move, just seek stability." Yamauchi Yoshikatsu has his own political considerations.

"I understand, and I will obey your order!" Kobayata promised softly.

The current task is to completely sort out the total income and total expenditure of the Yamauchi territory. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's request is not that Kobayata increase the income by a certain amount immediately, he just hopes to seek stability.

To put it in a darker way, he will wait until his father dies, and if he doesn't die, he will not interfere with the inherited financial base.

Kobayata thought to himself that you think so and are prepared to do so. But God will not give you this opportunity!

The Little Ice Age sweeping the world is becoming more and more severe. The typhoons and rainstorms in the western part of Kyushu will become more severe year by year, and the droughts and floods in the eastern part of Shinano will continue year by year.

If you rely entirely on farming and collecting agricultural taxes, you will sooner or later collapse financially. In another 20 or 30 years, the eastern part of Japan will be hit by droughts and floods. When it is dry, the ears of millet and grains cannot be pulled out. When it is flooded, all the rice will be drowned.

There will also be plagues, locust plagues, fires, and fevers. Countless disasters will follow one after another, and finally cause terrible political crises in the East and the West.

The bourgeois revolutionary movement in England in the West was surging, and the two wars to suppress the Scottish rebellion dragged on for a long time. King Charles I of England finally died, and Britain embarked on the road of global expansion.

Under the maneuvering of Cardinal Richelieu, France actively acted as a European troublemaker and successfully caused the German region to be divided and chaotic. The glorious era of the "Sun King" came with severe climate disasters.

The Habsburg dynasty was defeated in the struggle between various parties and lost the opportunity to unify the entire Holy Roman Empire. However, with the efforts of Prince Eugene, the Habsburgs' base was preserved and a small revival was ushered in.

The Ottoman Empire between the East and the West broke out a huge, large-scale rebellion that almost swept the country during the Little Ice Age. However, with the efforts of Murad IV, the lord of the revival, the rebellion was finally suppressed and the unity was restored, but it was inevitably on the decline.

The two major empires in the East, the Mughal Empire of India, the magnificent Taj Mahal will be built. However, Shah Jahan's continuous expansion and militarism, as well as Aurangzeb's wrong religious policies, finally pushed the empire into the abyss.

Finally, it was China. The old empire was invaded by foreign races. The so-called "Jurchens" destroyed the big with the small and seized the huge empire at an incredible speed. In the end, Emperor Sizong also hung his neck on the crooked tree, announcing the demise of the last unified Han dynasty.

The West is rising! The East is sinking!

If Yamauchi Yoshikatsu still kept the conservative and muddle-headed small-peasant mentality at this time, he would definitely be taught a lesson by God!

Innovating agricultural technology is not something that Xiaopingtai can do alone. He is willing but powerless. As for changing the climate, that is even more impossible. This is not a fantasy novel.

Some people traveled through time and arrived in the north of Dameng. They all dug deep wells to get water. Those who tell crosstalk all know that there were nine years of drought and nine years of flood in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen. There can be nine years of heavy rain. If there is not enough water, you will be flooded to death.

As for the nine-year drought, do you really think that everything will be fine if the water is connected? The sun can even kill the seedlings in your field. Agriculture depends on the weather for food, and the role of human power is too small and insignificant. Anyway, let's be frank, in the next few decades, agriculture will basically be hopeless.

However, Xiaopingtai can only complain in his heart and cannot be exposed. How can Yamauchi Yoshikatsu know what the Little Ice Age is. Although the year is getting worse and worse, life can still go on after fighting a few bad battles.

Since it can go on, don't expect him to have any idea of ​​"our journey is to the stars and the sea!"

Xiao Pingtai has no way to alleviate the various difficulties caused by the following bad weather for the time being, he doesn't have that much ability. Since Yamauchi Yoshikatsu ordered that as long as we continue to work step by step, we just need to listen to the boss and do it.

Anyway, they are all existing processes and methods. Xiao Pingtai is too lazy to worry about it. He directly transferred Hei Liu over and first inserted him into the accounting of the annual tribute and promoted him to the head of the imperial calculation. Then he inserted Kurosawa Ryoki, who has no relatives in the whole Yamauchi and only has an older sister, into the review and calculation of expenditures and served as the head of the imperial calculation team.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu asked Xiao Pingtai to take charge of financial power, and Xiao Pingtai asked Hei Liu to take charge of income and Kurosawa to take charge of expenditures. The boss assigns tasks and the younger brother works, layer by layer, with clear division of labor.

Besides, Heiroku is not interested in money but power, and he is obsessed with promotion. If Kobayata inserts him into the Kanjo Bugyosho, he will definitely find ways to pull Kobayata's tiger flag to keep the annual tribute calculation in his hands.

Kurosawa Ryoji was also responsible for the clerical work of the castle town of Yamanouchi Fuchu Castle before. This time, he was not allowed to manage the actual data calculation, but was responsible for supervising the expenditure. It should not be a difficult thing for him, after all, there were few specialized mathematical talents in this era, so it could only be done this way.

Kobayata's style is not to do everything by himself and toil hard. It is enough for the leader to be able to take charge of the overall situation. After instructing the two younger brothers to work hard, Kobayata left with peace of mind.

Because Xiao Pingtai has more important things to do, the money earned last time was divided and spent, and finally only more than 7,000 kan was left. Now he has to take it out and build a mansion that is worthy of his status, otherwise his father-in-law and mother-in-law will not let their daughter marry.

In this era, house transactions are of course available, but the land for housing, especially the land for housing under the castle of Yamanouchi Prefecture, is not easy to get. This thing requires a reward from Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu, and it cannot be bought.

Moreover, Xiao Pingtai also wants to live next to Uncle Tsunayoshi, not too far away, which makes this request even more difficult.

Originally, Uncle Tsunayoshi's house was also rewarded to him after his daughter entered Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's harem, and it was not bought. Xiao Pingtai's status does not have a ready-made mansion, so he can only say that he will build it by giving him land.

The land is easy to say, Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu let Xiao Pingtai choose whatever he wants, and gave him 2,000 square meters of vacant land under the castle. But Kobayata looked around and found that some of the land was either a little off or not big enough. There was a piece of land of 1,000 square meters on each side of Tsunayoshi's mansion, but they could not be used if they were separated.

"Tanzheng, what do you think we should do? The retainers are gradually gathering in the city, and it will be increasingly difficult to find open land." Tatsuzo followed Kobayata to look at the land for two days, but he didn't see anything satisfactory.

"It would be great if the open land on the left and right sides of my uncle's mansion could be combined." Kobayata had a plan in mind.