Chapter 668 13. Eight Strategies in Danzhenggong Mountain (Part 2)

"As a daimyo, you should know the sufferings of the people!"

Before his death, Yoshiharu Yamauchi taught Taro Yamauchi earnestly, telling him that the foundation of their Yamauchi family is to support the samurai and self-cultivating farmers in Yamauchi. His own class attributes also made him naturally have this kind of thinking.

Similar to the later eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, he even directly set up the "Meian Box" to ensure that he could hear the opinions of ordinary self-cultivating farmers. And thus directly prompted the establishment of the "Koishikawa Health Center" and the creation of the "Edo Town Fire Fighting".

To put it bluntly, the feudal rulers took advantage of their soberness to listen to the opinions of the lower classes, and then made some internal improvements to extend the length of their rule as vested interests.

Naked!

There is no affectionate love. The monarch and the people are the ruling class and the ruled class. To ease the opposition, you give up a part of the cake, and I continue to shoulder the heavy burden and endure it, and keep a degree with each other.

"If Your Highness can maintain the country with righteousness, he should set an example for the world and promote orthodoxy!"

"How?"

"This is the fourth strategy, unifying the currency!"

The Yamanouchi family's mint has privately minted more than 200,000 Yongle coins over the years. If this scale is placed next door, it is only a month's minting volume, but in Japan, it is an incredible fortune.

Over the past ten years, the Yamanouchi family has trained enough coin minting craftsmen and has mastered the casting process. This has reserved talents and laid the foundation for the establishment of a national coin minting agency under the shogunate in the future.

Nowadays, as long as there is a copper mine, who doesn't mint privately? Bad coins are circulated in the market, plundering people's wealth. The fine coins minted by the Yamanouchi family are of guaranteed quality and quantity, with a weight of 4 grams, regular size, and solid materials. It has been widely recognized and circulated, and can even be used unimpeded in other countries.

This represents the credit of the Yamanouchi family!

In addition, the Koshin region is rich in gold. The Yamanouchi clan has minted one-cent gold coins for many years and circulated them throughout the eastern part of the country. Four one-cent gold coins can be used as one tael, which is equivalent to one guanwen of Yongle coins.

There are too many people who have said that unified currency can stabilize the market, indirectly stabilize society and feudal rule. There is no need to copy and paste it here.

Just one point, which is the point that the ruler will not ignore the most!

Demonstrate royal power!

The coins I issue are universal in the world. Isn’t it a clear proof that I have unified the sixty-six countries and commanded the world? The money you use every day is minted by my shogunate, and it bears the stamp of my shogunate. The influence is huge and there is no need to elaborate.

In all dynasties, even the local governments in the corners, as long as there is a chance, who will not mint money?

Even those small governments that split a province or even half a province must change the era and mint coins, at least to inform the people within their rule that now I have the final say!

"So if your Highness can unite the princes and pacify the nations one day, you should recast new coins and distribute them throughout the country!" Xiao Ping Tai knew that just the one that showed authority was enough for Yamauchi Taro to remember and adopt.

"Write it down! This is also important!"

"If the coins are newly minted, gold, silver, and copper, the three commodities are sorted out, then your Highness should unify the weights and measures!"

"Weights and measures? Uncle Tan Zheng is talking about the Qin Shihuang's unified track for vehicles?"

"This is one of the reasons. Your Highness should know that there are only a 桡, how many kinds of it are there in the world? There are more than ten kinds in the East alone!"

Rulers including Takeda Shingen and Hojo Ujiyasu have used their power to promote their own determined 桡in their territories. As a unit of volume, liters are also considered a unit of weight to a certain extent, which has a vital impact on rice, the most important thing in people's lives.

Moreover, the unification of 桡 can also more intuitively understand the yield of a piece of land. It has a vital impact on important national affairs such as tax quotas and conscription.

Like the unification of currency, the unification of weights and measures is also a manifestation of the power of the king to a certain extent. The rice that the common people use every day, if it is called Yamanouchi Masu or Ashikaga Masu, it subtly shows who is ruling the world.

To show the king's rule and to clarify the orthodoxy!

"Danzheng, I heard that the Jingmao in Luoyang is widely circulated. What if it is changed at will and the people cannot accept it?" Perhaps he had heard of this thing, Yamanouchi Yoshio actually asked a question.

This man, who was called a "straw bag" by later generations, stood firm for three dynasties and left three fiefs to his descendants. The words "loyalty and honesty" are absolutely not related to him. It feels that words like "following the wind" are more appropriate.

Although he has no ability, he can see the wind direction, know how to save his life, and can understand the wind direction of the world.

"Then let each place use its own masu, and talk about unifying the world? Everyone does their own thing, and even the government orders cannot be communicated! When necessary, the sword on your waist is not just to show your identity!" Xiao Pingtai knew what Yamauchi Yoshio meant.

If you suddenly forcefully change the local measurement system that has been used for a long time, people will definitely not be used to it, and even complain. In addition, if the new masu is very different from the old Kyo masu, it will inevitably lead to chaos in the collection of annual tribute.

It is not impossible for an uprising to happen at that time!

But if you want to do big things, you can't even bear the pain of this reform, how can you talk about unifying the princes and clearing the world?

The winner can speak with the sword in his hand, and the loser can only accept it.

"Uncle, please continue!" Yamauchi Taro did not say anything.

"Okay! If Your Highness can unify the territory, you should take another approach and make friends with foreign countries!"

"Make friends with foreign countries? The southern barbarians?"

"That's right! The southern barbarians are not just about iron cannons and cannons!"

In another ten years, the Tensho Youth Mission to Europe will set off, and the real understanding of Europe will begin. No matter what the purpose of people like Otomo Sorin, Omura Sumitada, and Arima Harunobu was, it was true that they opened Japan's eyes to the world.

After returning home, the envoys brought a large number of gifts from European monarchs and the Pope, including objects such as the Gutenberg printing press.

It is not enough to always understand European countries through the Church of Jesus, which will gradually be controlled by others. It is necessary to communicate directly with the monarchs of the European continent through the power of the Yamanouchi family, and exchange what they have, so as to keep up with the pace of the times and enhance their own strength.

While the West is not far ahead of the East, keep up with this step, so that the black ships will not enter the Edo Port in the end, and the shogunate's hatamoto will not go to the streets to buy flashy things like domaru.

More importantly, the exchanges with European countries led by the future shogunate or Yamauchi Taro can, to a certain extent, curb the spread of ideas that directly overthrow the ruling class, which has both advantages and disadvantages.