After an in-depth exchange with Lilu, Yiyin finally determined the shogunate's general policy on Nanman trade.
It is to open up to the outside world, expand the scale of Nanman trade in Sakai Port, add more fresh blood to the Hokuriku Dou trade route system, and offset the danger of indiscriminate issuance of Sika food stamps by making the cake bigger.
Although Yiyin has always been thinking about the final plan of opening up direct trade tomorrow, it now seems that Nanman Trade's plan is more realistic and effective, and can temporarily stabilize the Spo family's financial system.
Lifting Nanman trade restrictions and expanding the scale of foreign trade will naturally relax restrictions on Nanman religion.
As the patron saint of Buddhism, Bishamonten, it is impossible for Yoshigoshi to agree with Nanman teachings and betray his own Shinto roots.
However, once the Nanman trade was liberalized and a large number of Nanman people penetrated into the interior of the island country, it would be difficult for the island country's auditors to distinguish the identity of the missionaries.
A large number of missionaries will follow the Nanman merchants and infiltrate into the island country. The physical isolation of the Nanman faith will fail, and underground churches will spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
Yiyin didn't know what trouble this would cause, but he couldn't care about it for the time being.
If you want the benefits of Nanman trade, you must accept the disadvantages of Nanbar trade. Nothing is perfect in the world. The fundamental principle of political choice is that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Of course, Yiyin would not be the bad guy in person, but would use the political platform of the shogunate to promote Nanman trade reform.
Let the shogunate come forward and provide Lilu, the Nanman general agent, with political chips to use in business negotiations with Nanman merchants.
As for the anger of Buddhism, the shogunate prevaricates various Buddhist sects on the grounds that it firmly opposes the entry of Nanman missionaries and only allows Nanman merchants to do business.
In fact, as Yoshigan thought, the shogunate was in such a bad state that it had no ability to distinguish the difference between Nanman missionaries and Nanman merchants, let alone the ability to restrict the activities of Nanman people in various places.
The weak shogunate opened a hole in the dike against the Nanman barbarians, and then the surging tide would soon breach the dike, making the shogunate's restrictions on the Nanman missionaries useless.
This is also a little sweetness given to the Nanman Church by Lord Yi Yin. Although he politically rejects the Nanman faith, the reality is that Nanman missionaries can finally go deep into the island country to preach.
I believe that the Southern Barbarian Church will also assess the situation, gladly accept the goodwill of the shogunate, hide among the Western and Portuguese caravans, and enter the island country to preach.
As long as the Nanman Church supports it, the biggest obstacle to expanding Nanman trade will be lifted, and then there will be business negotiation that Lilu is best at.
Lilu will expose the old foundations of the Westerners and the Portuguese, force them to make concessions, and let the Hokuriku Road trade route system headed by the Shiba family eat the richest piece of southern barbarian trade.
After all, no matter what kind of trade you are in, you cannot do without water and sea transportation logistics. The cost and risk of land transportation are much higher than that of water and sea transportation.
As long as the Shiba family still controls the mature logistics system of the Hokuriku Road trade route, no business activities can bypass cooperation with the Shiba family.
While Yoshigan completed its trade layout with Nanman, the Shogunate Group and the Ashikaga Hui clan were also slowly getting along, gradually forming a new political balance in Kyoto, which made Yoshigan breathe a sigh of relief.
It's funny to say that the shogunate group that controls Kyoto is actually more afraid of public opinion than the punishment of laws and regulations.
What they fear is not the surging public opinion under the public opinion, but the fear that the public opinion will destroy the illusion of harmony they have spun, allowing the saints above to see the truth.
The shogunate wrote so many laws and regulations, all of which were good laws that served the samurai family wholeheartedly. In the end, no one was afraid of the majesty of the law. The only thing they were afraid of was public opinion exposing the truth.
This joke is really not funny at all. What is wrong with this Wu family society? The Emperor’s New Clothes is truly a fairy tale that will never go out of style.
As a higher ruler, Yiyin is actually blind and deaf. He can only rely on the lower-level warriors and mobilize the lower-level warriors to uncover more hidden dangers and try to change some injustices.
The shogunate group dare not be angry or speak out, but they will definitely try their best to slander behind their backs and regard this change in Kyoto as a political catastrophe.
Those with vested interests will never understand the feelings of the victims. They will only destroy the foundation of the entire Wu family group for the sake of the petty profit in front of them.
And Yiyin is just a selfish feudal theocratic ruler. He will not continue to do it for ten or eight years, causing the vested interests to complain and himself to be cursed forever.
A selfless ruler must not be a normal person. Yiyin couldn't imagine. What does that kind of person want?
Yiyin is just an ordinary person. Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he hopes that his descendants can rule this island country and enjoy wealth and prosperity forever.
As long as this political goal can be achieved, he does not care whether the future of the islanders is bright or bleak.
If the weak and ignorant people can allow the descendants of Sibo to stand at the top of the island country's pyramid forever, Yiyin will not hesitate to turn the island country into a closed society that will always be ignorant.
After all, he has never regarded himself as an island countryman in his heart. When considering the future of the island country, he only cares about the happiness of his own family.
What’s interesting is that the island people of this era don’t have the feeling of family, country, and world. They are also selfish and only care about the future of their own family.
Therefore, Yiyin can join forces with the admirers of the Wu Family Group to create its own divine power and raise the meaning of noble blood to the sky.
If it were placed in the Chinese dynasty, it would be hard to imagine that those elites who claim to be princes, generals, ministers, and care about everything in the world would wholeheartedly indulge in righteousness and corrupt theocracy.
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The cold wind in winter was getting more and more biting, and Yiyin, who had completed the Nanman trade layout and the political arrangements in Kyoto, knew it was time to set off.
Things can never be done, and if they continue to be delayed, they will be delayed until the beginning of spring. It is more convenient to take a boat back to Kanto directly from the Hokuriku Road trade route.
But Yoshihiro rejected the idea of taking the Hokuriku Road from the bottom of his heart, and still wanted to go back to Kanto via the Tokaido Road.
The birth of Uesugi Miyuki made him feel intimidated. It's not that he doesn't like his daughter, it's just that he is too entangled in Echigo's political interests and has lingering fears.
The Echigo Kingdom was the starting point for Yoshigan's conquest of Kanto. The Echigo duopoly formed by him and Uesugi Kenshin is still the most important political cornerstone of the Shiba family's foothold in Kanto.
Even the Kanto Shrine, a political platform that was growing rapidly, was actually built on the basis of Echigo's dual politics.
Without the strong support of the brave and wealthy Echigo samurai group, Yiyin would not have a solid stepping stone to enter and exit the Kanhachishu region.
But on the other hand, because Echigo's dual politics was too important, the birth of Uesugi Miyuki, the second daughter, was far more complicated and difficult to deal with than the eldest daughter Takeda Yoshinobu and the third daughter Yuigahama Dango.
Because this daughter has a high starting point, Uesugi Kenshin and the Echigo samurai group behind her must be eager for this daughter to inherit everything from the Shiba family, but Yoshigan is not willing.
The Wu Group is also moving towards political maturity step by step.
From the Kamakura shogunate period, when each heir received an equal share of the territory, to the Ashikaga shogunate, where the family governor inherited everything, the samurai family's inheritance method became increasingly zero-sum.
To put it simply, each heir could get something from his mother. No matter how much, he would eventually have partial inheritance rights.
But now, only the house governor eats alone, and the other branch families either share the leftovers with the house governor as a dog, or they don't have any at all.
Inheriting one family will help the Wu family maintain the family business and will not slowly lose strength due to the division of territory.
But on the other hand, because the family governor lived alone, all the heirs desperately wanted to become the family governor, and the struggle to inherit the family business became fierce.
This is a zero-sum game, where the winner takes everything and the loser gets nothing.
The third-generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu took advantage of the benefits of this era. He used the heirs of each family to compete for inheritance rights, divided and weakened him, and became the only powerful shogun in the Ashikaga shogunate.
Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. The prosperity of the Ashikaga family stemmed from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's balancing act, but the decline of the Ashikaga family was also due to this.
During the Yatsushiro Shogun Rebellion, the Yamano family and the Hosokawa family also started fighting for succession, mobilizing the Ashikaga shogun they supported to start a war.
That battle greatly weakened the strength of the shogunate's high-ranking sect, and destroyed most of the shogunate's prestige and control over the local area.
For the shogunate as a whole, the final political result was that there was no winner, and all the shogunate warriors were losers.
This is the disadvantage of inheriting the family governor, because it is so good to eat alone, and everyone wants to grab the chair to eat alone, resulting in a very fierce battle for inheritance rights, with almost no lower limit.
Yiyin is worried.
The divine family that he is building will eventually become so powerful that the various divine families will fight each other in order to grab the chair after his death, leaving him unable to rest in peace in heaven.
Yiyin already had some vague ideas in his mind. He wanted to remove his chair.
In fact, based on the tradition of the samurai family, as early as the imperial family system of the Kamakura shogunate, there was a political tradition of joint governance by the nobles.
It was just that Minamoto no Yoritomo had only a few heirs at that time and relied on the various Hime warrior groups under his command to exercise power, making it impossible to establish a strong bloodline co-governance system.
But Yi Gin is different. Yoshi Gin is a man. He does not need to give birth by himself. He only needs to work hard to sow seeds, and he can turn the powerful leaders of the Hime Warriors into the mothers of his children.
What he needs to consider is how to use the child's mother so that the heirs can get used to the political form of aristocratic discussion. Everyone can discuss matters together and jointly safeguard the supreme rule of the Divine Group.
At this time, Yoshigami was holding Takeda Yoshinobu, and sitting next to him was the ecstatic Kosaka Masanobu.
"Really? Saint, do you want His Highness to go back to visit His Highness Takeda?"
Yiyin nodded, touched the child's little head and said.
"Yoshinobu has been away from his mother for two years. He left home when he was three years old, and now he can hardly remember his mother's appearance. This is not good for the child's growth.
I will set off soon from Tokaido to Kanto to take care of things. Yoshinobu should go back with me. Takeda Shingen should also want to have a child. "
Of course, Kosaka Masanobu knew that Takeda Shingen missed his children day and night, and every letter filled with love overflowed from the letter paper.
But the problem is that the Takeda family failed to go to Luo, and Takeda Shingen had no choice but to use Takeda Yoshinobu's child as a hostage to provoke the Shiba-Oda War. As a mother, she is responsible for the original sin.
Despite everyone's propaganda, Yoshigan went to war with Oda Nobunaga for the sake of the Takeda family. In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that the real trigger was His Highness Takeda.
If Takeda Shingen provokes a battle involving 200,000 people, which took a year of preparation, and can easily take his daughter home, he will really treat everyone as a fool.
Takeda Yoshinobu's presence at Yoshigan's side allowed the Shiba family to control the Takeda family's heir. This was a political balance point. Takeda Shingen had no right to interfere with the child's future, or even see the child.
This is the political price Takeda Shingen has to pay, and she herself can only accept it painfully.
Yoshiyin's generosity at this time made Kosaka Masanobu overjoyed and unbelievable. Her hesitation was also expected by Yoshiyin.
If Yoshigami was an ordinary samurai daimyo, he would have to carefully place Takeda Yoshinobu in order to avoid causing big trouble in the future for the sake of family inheritance.
But Yoshigin's current identity is Bishamon Tenren, and he is the living god.
His child is a god, and he is planning to improve the structure of theocratic rule, from a single person at the top to a new political structure in which a group of gods join forces to safeguard theocracy.
The Takeda family is no longer the target of the Shiba family's suppression, but a part of the Shiba theocracy, and needs to contribute its own strength to the maintenance of the theocracy.
Takeda Shingen is so bad that he has sores on his head and pus on his feet. Yoshigage needs such a powerful bad guy to help her. For the future of her children, she must wholeheartedly safeguard Shiba's divine power.
Takeda Shingen is planning to participate in the crusade against the Eastern people, and will attack the Satake family of Hitachi Kuni in the name of Takeda Yoshinobu, the child's Jindai.
She wanted to occupy the magpie's nest, and in the name of Takeda Yoshinobu, the Yoshinobu bloodline, take over the guardianship of the Satake family in the Hitachi Kingdom, and expand the Takeda family's territory.
At this juncture, Yoshigan took the initiative to let Takeda Yoshinobu go back to visit relatives, which can be seen as a kind of encouragement and encouragement in politics.
Kosaka Masanobu was inevitably confused as to what the saint was going to do. But Yiyin knew very well that what he wanted was the prosperity of divine power.
Showing selfishness and being biased is just to prove to everyone that this guy Shiba Yiyin is a god who is willing to agree to anything for the sake of his children, has a soft ear, and is strong on the pillow.
Uesugi Kenshin's strength is too strong, so he will recruit a few more divine descendants to share the Uesugi family's influence in Kanto and create an artificial balance.
The principle of Yiyin is to be a loving father. If any of you cry, I will be soft-hearted. You can expand as hard as you want. Anyway, in the end, it will be your own children's property, and the meat will always rot in the pot.
But the upper-level relations must be united. He must find a way to make the gods form a united front, unite with the outside world, and use a better profit distribution plan to make internal fighting meaningless.
As for the future, Yiyin already has some ideas in mind, jointly. . Imperial elector. . The virtual king has real opinions. .
He smiled at Kosaka Masanobu.
"I rode along the Tokaido Road on horseback. My children were too young to follow me on the bumpy ride, and along the way, I always had to stop and meet local celebrities.
Let's do this, you take Yoshinobu to Ise Country first, and then return to Suruga Country by sea, which is safe and fast. "
With Yoshigan's current influence, he would have said hello in advance and sent a team of Shiba Tongxinzhong to take care of him. They would pass through the Oda family's territory and send the children back to visit relatives by sea. No one would dare to think wrong.
When Kosaka Masanobu saw Yoshigan say this, he naturally believed that he sincerely wanted his child to go back to visit his mother, and was extremely surprised.
"Thank you, Saint. I will write to Her Majesty Takeda and ask her to send someone to Suruga Country to assist you."
Yiyin nodded and pinched the child's little face.
"Yixin, are you happy that you can go back to see your mother?"
"Happy!"
