Pillars of the Wu family

() Hontami Hachiro has become much more honest since he experienced the last blow. During the day, he followed Kansuke Yamamoto to learn fortification and management techniques. When the moonlight shines at night, he ran outside to read books by the moonlight. He studied very hard. It is much stronger than Kira Wansongwan back then.

"Only this kind of perseverance can make a famous counselor in the Warring States Period!" Kira Manmatsumaru sighed, and he only admired this kind of smart, studious and hardworking person. Compared with Honda Ya Hachiro, his younger brother Honda Mi Mi Too bad, I followed Takigawa Keijiro all day long to hang out in Saijo Bisato, stalking and insisting on learning marksmanship from Gun Hanzo Watanabe Takatsuna, seeing that the young Nakajo Hidetaka has excellent swordsmanship, and ran away again. In the past, we had to learn the art of war of the Zhongjo family.

I don't know if it's because his carefree and carefree personality is very appetizing to the Mikawa samurai. Keijiro Takigawa, an outsider, was quickly accepted by everyone. A young and careless naive boy, he really has a familiar face among the Samurai warriors.

It is said that Takigawa Keijiro asked Watanabe Takatsuna for a trial match as soon as he came up, and Watanabe Takatsuna did not refuse his challenge. Of course, he was defeated by a single shot every time, and every time he stubbornly got up, he would be knocked down again On the ground, in the end, Watanabe Takatsuna couldn't stand it and told him that although the foundation of spear skills was good, it was not enough. He was too young and lacked strength, so he had to practice for a few more years.

Watanabe Takatsuna also told him that the Watanabe family's family's spearmanship came from Kinai, and the spearmanship in Kinai is respected by the southern capital Beiling, and the best spearmanship should be learned at Kofuku Temple and Enryaku Temple. Jihozoin Yinei's spear skills are very famous in Kinai. Keijiro Takigawa hid quietly when Zenjiro Yamaoka was away, and begged Kira Manmatsumaru to take him to Yamato Kingdom.

"But my family has no plans to go to Yamato!"

"I heard that Nara's Heijo-kyo is as beautiful as Heian-kyo! My lord, I'll take a look at Kairi first, and then take Princess Katsu for a tour!" Takigawa Keijiro looked carefree and careless, and he didn't expect to be able to say that. Such a delicate thought, but he has to admit that this proposal is really good.

"Okay! Only this time, don't make another example!" Kira Wansongmaru thought about it for a moment, and then readily agreed.

"Thank you, Master Master!" Keijiro Takigawa ran away excitedly, as if to inform his little friend Mitsuya Honda.

The Uji River is a tributary of the Yodo River, and it is also the only river that flows out of Lake Biwa. It joins the Katsura River, which flows through the Kamo River in Kyoto, and the Sonobe River, and the Kizu River, which flows through the Yamato Kingdom, to form the Yodo River.

There are many tributaries at all levels of the Yodo River, and the drainage area is also very wide. This Kinki No. [-] river rushes along the south-west course across the Osaka Plain, and finally flows into Osaka Bay at the end of the plain.

Sakai-cho is at the corner of Osaka Bay, at the junction of the three kingdoms of Jin, Hanoi, and Izumi. Sakai of the three states has become his name. Since the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the shogunate was rejuvenated, and the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of Luyuan Temple was sent to Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty. After being proclaimed as a minister, the exploration and cooperation trade between China and Japan rose, and this small port in Kinai rose rapidly due to its unique geographical advantages.

Later, as the Hosokawa family took over the power of the shogunate after the Onin Rebellion, Sakaimachi became an important port for the Hosokawa family to control the Kanhe trade, injecting greater economic stimulus into this new city, and gradually transforming it into the most important business in the Kinki area. The port almost monopolizes the economic activities of Kyushu, West Country and Kinai through the Seto Inland Sea, and its commercial status even exceeds that of Kyoto's Kyomachi.

As the largest port in Kinai and an emerging commercial city, the scale of Sakai Town is definitely far beyond the scale of all the castle towns in the Warring States Period. You can feel a strong commercial atmosphere just close to the periphery of the city. The whole city is run by a man named Naya. The Chamber of Commerce self-governing organization manages.

In this era, there are still many chambers of commerce similar to Nawu who control the city, such as Uji Yamada Town, Ominato, and Kuwanajuku Town in Ise Country, Hakata Minato in Chikuzen Country in Kyushu, and Sakata Minato in Dewa Country Village, etc., also implement similar Chambers of commerce jointly manage an autonomous power structure, which is also known as a congregation.

The system of Huihezhong is almost similar to Zun Village. After the collapse of the medieval manor system, some rich peasants in the countryside gradually took control of the land. After the disintegration of the manor system, some lands failed to occupy these villages for various reasons. Therefore, the emerging local servants and villagers united to form an autonomous body, and selected several local servants or powerful peasants as old underground people to jointly manage the village.

They are also dissatisfied with the management of the shogunate and the lord of the country. In order to seek self-government power, they often instigate or set off riots. For example, in the first year of Cargill, the Tokusei Ichiku was caused by these villages. The village group quickly gathered [-] troops to form a Terrible Toichikui forces occupied the major temples in Kinai, and threatened that if the shogunate government did not issue a decree, they would burn all the monasteries and temples. At that time, the shogunate happened to catch up with the Cargill Rebellion, and the political situation in Kyoto was in chaos. It is easy for the group to obtain the order of the benevolent government, which also fuels the arrogance of the natives.

The same thing about the congregation and the village is that the internal system is exactly the same, but the relationship between farmers and local servants has been converted into the relationship between small merchants, merchants, and wealthy merchants. Of course, they will not obey the management of the shogunate and the middle school. Instead, a certain amount of "Yaqian" is paid annually as a protection fee to obtain the power of self-government. For commercial ports like Sakaicho, it can be called a cash cow, and lords from all over the country, including the Hosokawa family, dare not Excessive pressure, so their status is much higher than that of the village group.

The congregation not only maintains a high degree of autonomy, but also has its own relevant laws and regulations to deal with various commercial disputes. They also have their own law enforcement agencies to deal with crimes such as fraud, robbery, theft and even murder. The businessmen in the city were jointly selected, most of them are from the top wealthy businessmen in all walks of life, and this group of people is called "the virtuous".

The self-governing joint meeting composed of these "virtuous people" is responsible for handling the daily affairs of the entire city, and resolving various commercial conflicts and criminal cases. It is probably similar to the famous federal system. The system is also similar in terms of names. For example, Uji Yamada is called "Yamada Mikata", Hakata Minato is called "12-year-old company", Shonai Sakata is called "36 people", and Ozuo is called "Huihezhong".

For example, the congregation in Sakaimachi is called Nawuzhong. You can tell from the name that Nawu is a chamber of commerce engaged in such industries as earth storage. That is to say, they were initially organized by warehouse lenders and pawnbrokers, but after nearly a hundred years of development Changes, the members of the Nawu people have changed many times, some old families have declined and new families have risen. At the beginning, the 36 members of the Nawu family have long been different from each other. Today, everyone knows that the ten people in Sakai Town are in power. As for the 36 people No one knows why there are only ten people left.

Jiliang Wansongmaru and his party have dozens of people disguised as ordinary merchants, and they are not conspicuous among the caravans coming from all over the way. There are only dozens of ronin as bodyguards, with bows, horses, swords, guns and armor, and they are more elite than many daimyo's armed forces.

"As expected, Sakai-cho is really amazing!" Both Kira Wanmatsumaru and the people around him have a deep impression on Sakai-cho, and Sakai-cho is indeed very powerful. The town is surrounded by many rivers such as Doigawa, Uchikawa, Furukawa, Tachikawa, and Shinborigawa.

Many of these rivers were excavated by businessmen in Sakai-machi, in order to use the dense river network to achieve the purpose of improving the speed of commercial activities and freight transportation. It is said that the fastest way to get from Sakai South to Sakai North is to take Boats show how much the city relies on water transportation. The criss-crossing river network can be seen everywhere with large and small piers. This is the basis for the vitality of Sakaimachi and creates an excellent environment for the development of the city. condition.

Note: This is also the information Wumei can find by consulting the history of Sakai City and related materials, not just talking about it.