Chapter 58 17. Learn More About High-Interest Financial Management

Soon the court's official document came down, with four parallel lines and six parallel sentences, a beautiful article, and it was not written on paper, but on a piece of wood.

This thing is the legendary official certificate, which wrote a few sentences about Xiao Pingtai's height of 1.4 meters, dark complexion, and slight beard, and then explained that Xiao Pingtai had served as the sixth Dan Zheng Shao Zhong. With this wooden sign, he was a legitimate official certified by the court.

Shaking the long piece of wood, twenty strings of money, not bad, this handwriting is estimated to be more valuable than twenty strings in the future. Even if it is not written on silk or paper, it is estimated that it will not be easy to preserve for the future.

Looking at the old servant who brought the wooden sign, Xiao Pingtai asked Aji to give the old servant a hundred coins. The old servant was so happy that his face shrank, and his smile was like a chrysanthemum. It was as brilliant as it could be.

Aji handed him the money, and he thanked him profusely, saying, "Thank you for the reward, thank you for the reward." Xiao Pingtai waved his hand and said, "Go back and say hello to my grandfather and uncle for me."

When the old servant left, the other hatamoto samurai came to see the novelty. The wooden board was passed around, and they all praised that this was a certificate.

Although there were also hatamoto samurai with an annual salary of 50 kan or 100 kan, some of them inherited the common name of their family and were called officials such as so-and-so Shu or so-and-so Bingwei. In fact, they were not recognized at all, but no one exposed them. There were also some who made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, and the master's family reported them to the court in batches. They were distributed to dozens of people at once, and they were not worth much.

Only Xiao Pingtai was a formal official of the court who had spent money and got connections, and was registered and filed.

Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu came in from the outside and saw a group of people playing lively, so he asked what everyone was doing. Kobayata then handed him the wooden scepter. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu saw that he also had one, which his father bought for him through the shogunate four or five years ago.

So he ordered his attendants to take out his wooden scepter, and it was exactly the same, but it was written on it that it was the fifth-rank Sasuke. As expected, people with big connections are different. They can become officials at the age of fourteen or fifteen. Everyone expressed their envy.

How could Yamauchi Yoshikatsu miss such an opportunity to win people over? He immediately promised that whoever served the public and made meritorious contributions in the future, he would also help them get an official position.

Of course, everyone had to cooperate with him in the performance. They quickly knelt down, expressed their loyalty, and said that they would be loyal and brave in serving the public and would not forget the kindness of the Yamauchi family.

Then time passed slowly. Everyone had nothing to do for a long time. It was already June. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Nagao Kagetora had several contacts before and after, and finally finalized a covenant agreed by both parties. In the future, they would help each other when entering and leaving Kanto.

Compared with the pleasant cooperation with the Yamauchi family, both the host and the guest were happy. On the shogunate side, Nagao Kagetora was unable to persuade the prince to go to war against Miyoshi head-on, and he returned home with some regret.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu discussed the alliance and met Nagao Kagetora again, and he was not going to stay in Beijing any longer, but Kobayata's high-return financial management had not yet been settled. So he took Aji to continue wandering around the streets, hoping to find business opportunities.

Generally speaking, making money mainly starts from food, clothing, housing and transportation. Because these things will never be eliminated, there is no fear of not being able to sell them and losing money. For clothing, in addition to finished cloth, there are three major raw materials, namely raw silk, blue ramie and kapok.

Raw silk is still in the stage of small-scale production, with uneven quality, and most of it is controlled by the lord. The Yamauchi family also does this business. Kobayata also plans to promote mulberry planting on the vacant land in the county in the future. After all, raw silk has a lot of profit. It's always good to expand the source of income.

Then there is Aoji, which is Aoji. The main producer and controller is Nagao Kagetora in Echigo. It is imported into Echizen Tsuruga and Wakasa Obama on a large scale through the trade route of the Hokkai ship, and then transported to Kyoto, where it is directly woven or sold through merchants controlled by nobles and temples and shrines. The profit of this area is not small. If you dare to intervene, Nagao Kagetora will probably chop you off with a knife.

The last kapok is very cheap and can be seen almost everywhere, with little profit. Unless you can reduce the cost of weaving and market it on a large scale at a low price. Only by taking the path of small profits and quick turnover can you make money.

As for food, I'm sorry to say that you can't even eat enough. Many famous Japanese snacks and snacks in later generations have not been formed or are only in their prototypes. Extending to utensils, it includes gold and silver utensils, wooden products and lacquerware, all of which are controlled by the big merchants.

As for living, don't even think about real estate. If it is feasible, it is horses and vehicles. Horses are military supplies, and the system of horse service is also to deal with the control of horses. If you are not a big tyrant or a big merchant group, don't think about intervening.

For other weapons and equipment manufacturing, learning to make iron cannons is a way, and the profit is not small. The key is to strengthen the military power of the family, but craftsmen are not easy to dig. Swords and armor are also good, but there is neither good iron nor famous craftsmen, and the return cycle is not short.

The rest are high-end handicrafts, various bamboo and wood crafts, and this material is not available everywhere. Then there is the porcelain industry, which is already available in Ejiri, so it is not considered. Turtle shell crafts, this requires tortoise shells (hawksbill turtles), let's discuss it later. As for tatami, it is a specialty of Mimasaka Tsuyama, and there is no need to compete for second-rate.

After thinking about it, there is really no industry that can make huge profits.

Then I thought about the products of the territories around the Yamanouchi family. The most profitable one was naturally the gold mine. Whether it was Izu, Suruga, Echigo, Sado, Sagami, Musashi, Hida, or Shinano, all of them had large-scale gold mines. As long as they could be opened, the gold dug out would be profitable immediately, but thinking about the big guys who occupied the gold mines, I didn't dare to think about it. Then finally, the endless raw lacquer industry in Hida came into view.

Lacquer is a good thing. It is easy to cultivate. Up to 20,000 seedlings can be grown in one acre. After transplantation, about 100 lacquer trees can be planted in one acre. Lacquer can be harvested in five to eight years. It is harvested from June to September every year. At the beginning, one lacquer tree can produce about half a pound. When the lacquer tree is more than ten years old and enters the peak production period, each tree can harvest one pound of raw lacquer a year. It can be produced continuously for about thirty years, and each pound of raw lacquer is worth more than 100 coins.

The profit obtained is more than ten times that of farming, which is very tempting. And the production area is also close, so Xiao Pingtai decided to go to Hida to take a look after returning home.

Then he bought all kinds of silk flowers, incense powder, head ornaments, jewelry, belts, and jewelry needed by the wives' group. It was really a shopping spree. The purchase of hundreds of kan once again confirmed the rumors that the Yamauchi family was stupid and rich.

Xiao Pingtai could only spread his hands and blame me. I was also forced to buy by the wives' group. I didn't need it myself. I didn't even have a wife, so how could I buy blindly.