Naoe Keizuna sighed and explained to Daxiong Chaohide and the two masters above.
"The land and climate of Echigo are very suitable for growing green hemp. Before the Lord allows Nakashita Echigo to grow green hemp, only the Uesugi family territory can participate.
Echigo can be considered a fertile land, but the income from the land is only a little more food.
If you want to make a living, you need to grow other cash crops. It’s nothing more than growing beans and flax in exchange for daily necessities such as salt.
The yield of beans is much lower than that of rice, and beans are military supplies for war horses. Most of them are forced to grow at the request of the military family. The purchase price is low and you can’t make any money by planting it.
Green flax is different. It is planted in the spring and harvested in the autumn. After the harvest is completed, it is spread on the ground for retting, which takes about twenty days.
It is almost the end of autumn. Taking advantage of the slack season in autumn and winter, everyone will be knitting and knitting at home.
Zhongxiayue got the right to plant green hemp, but it was too late and it was not in time for the solar term. He could not plant much this year. The green hemp cloth currently on the market is still a specialty of the Uesugi family.
Green linen cloth was hard currency and could be used as copper coins. Not only the foolish women in the village couldn't bear to wear them, but also the middle- and lower-class Ji warriors. They could sell them in exchange for low-quality hemp, salt and other daily necessities.
The cultivation and weaving of green flax are almost the only additional income for the middle and lower families. Over the years, everyone has become accustomed to including it in one year's income.
Now is the late autumn and early winter, and every family is knitting and weaving linen in preparation for exchange for supplies for the winter.
Once the linen market is closed and the linen cloth cannot be sold or exchanged for anything, the livelihood of the lower-class warriors will soon be in trouble.
You can't exchange green linen cloth for salt, and poor cloth, how can you use the grain stored at home?
The people at the bottom are in poverty, and the food they save is limited to a few mouths at home, so they can only eat good food. If you sell the stored grain, you can't eat the seed grain for next spring's plowing, right?
In the eyes of the two masters, a few feet of green linen might be worth a few pennies or a few trivial matters. But in the eyes of the low-level waiters and village women, they are the lifeblood of surviving the winter.
Since the opening of the convenient Hokkaido sea transport, the caravans that Echigo organized to sell cloth in Kamikaze have disappeared, and no one will buy green hemp cloth.
If the hemp cloth market in Naoetsu is closed for another ten days, and the middle and lower classes become depressed and desperate, they will give up this income and find another way. "
At this point, Naoe Keizuna stopped and swallowed.
Daxiong Chaoxiu's face was already turning blue. She didn't expect it to be so serious.
Yoshigan Shiba glanced at Terutora Uesugi on the side. No wonder she came over in a hurry with Naoe Keizuna.
Uesugi Teruhu is just afraid of trouble when she acts rough, she is not stupid. The relationship between the linen market and the market is too big. Once you understand the power of it, everyone will be numb.
Although Naoe Keizuna didn't say any more, the subtext was already clear.
Once the linen market is closed and green linen cloth cannot be sold, the middle and lower classes will choose other methods and exchange other things for daily necessities for the winter.
There is not much real hard currency, and most of what the poor middle and lower classes can afford is food.
Without food, the situation is unstable. Once there is a shortage of food and clothing in the coming year, the lower class of the Uesugi family will definitely hate the Shiba family for closing the linen market.
In order not to be controlled by others, they will definitely reorganize the caravan that is time-consuming, labor-intensive and earns little money, and go to Luo on their own so as not to be choked by the Spo family.
With reduced income and lack of rations, the cooperation between the Uesugi and Shiba families will inevitably be affected. The hatred of the Shiba family by the middle and lower classes of the Uesugi family is more difficult to deal with than the greed of the high-ranking samurai family.
It's easy to bribe a few high-level bosses, but when hundreds or thousands of lower-level warriors hate them, that's the real trouble.
They don't care about any exchange of benefits.
I will only remember that winter, because the Shiba family closed the linen market, they had to go through the winter hungry, and even several people in the family died.
Just thinking about this consequence made Shiba Yiyin's scalp numb. Daxiong Chaoxiu had accidentally stung a hornet's nest.
At this time, what else do you think about punishing the Uesugi retainers, and what do you think about causing the Uesugi family to bleed? Let’s open the azabu market first!
Naoe Keizuna observed Shiba Yoshigan's reaction and saw that his face was serious, obviously he understood the seriousness.
she continued.
"The Imperial Office, please be patient. I ordered the closure of all market transactions in Naoejin yesterday.
No one can buy or sell now, even if someone wants to exchange food for necessities. "
Yiyin couldn't help but admire.
"good!"
Well done Naoe Keetsuna.
Naoetsu is already the largest trading center in Echigo, and even vendors traveling in the villages purchase goods from Naoetsu.
Regardless of whether the middle and lower classes were willing to exchange food for daily necessities, Naoe Keetsuna stopped all transactions in Naoejin, and no one could do business for the time being.
The people at the bottom want to impulsively exchange food for supplies, but there is no way to do so. They can only stop and wait.
Shiba Yiyin sighed.
"Naoe-sama, you have contributed to this matter. Your Highness Uesugi is really lucky to have you as your assistant."
Yiyin's unintentional words made Daxiong Chaoxiu's face feel hot.
Although her subordinate Feng Xing came up with the idea, she was not aware of the problem, which was a big mistake in itself.
If it hadn't been for Naoe Keetsuna's quick response, the subsequent negative impact of this time might have caused the cooperation between the two companies to collapse.
But this is not the fault of Daxiong Chaoxiu.
She had been bullied by the peripheral samurai family in the Uesugi family before, and had no access to the benefits of green hemp, so naturally she didn't know the powerful relationship between them.
But things are already like this. Daxiong Chaoxiu accidentally cheated Sibo Yiyin this time.
Naoe Keizuna had been so panicked before, punishing the followers, smashing pots and selling iron to collect money, and coming to kowtow to apologize and let him be beaten and punished.
This gesture was enough, but he kicked the ball to Shiba Yiyin, making him embarrassed.
Punishment is definitely not enough. The situation is almost out of control now, and if it continues, something big will happen.
Instead of punishing him, Sibo Yiyin could only come out to help and smooth things over. Therefore, he still had to pay, and he was the one who took the blame.
Naoe Keizuna looked like a loyal king, considering the overall situation, he did not hesitate to force Uesugi to commit mass bleeding, which was a success but no fault.
Her desperate posture was to wait for the big bear Chaoxiu behind her to come up and hold her back, so as not to completely ruin the situation.
Daxiong Chaoxiu suffered a heavy loss, and he has to thank Naoe Keizuna for saving the overall situation. He stepped forward and grabbed her and said, Sister, forget it, I will pay for it.
Shiba Yiyin just felt palpitating, but Daxiong Chaoxiu was extremely sick.
Naoe Keizuna's demeanor is loyal, but deep down he's very sinister.
The ball was kicked to Shiba Yiyin. Can Daxiong Chaoxiu not share the worries of his master? She was the one who dug this hornet's nest!
Yoshihiro Shiba and Terutora Uesugi had nothing to say. This time the tax refund from the second husband was another confusion. It doesn't matter if you make people hate you, nor does it mean punishing you.
A single move affects the whole body.
Naoe Keetsuna passed the customs safely, and the interests of the Uesugi family will not be affected too much.
Exquisite on all sides, extremely powerful.
