These small shops are scattered all over the place. The poorest people in Kyushu, after converting to her religion, not only gained spiritual comfort, but also got rid of material poverty.
This is pie in the sky. After passing the examination, they often move their families to other places and open small family shops with funds provided by the church.
The family runs a small shop and secretly preaches the gospel in the local area. These small shops not only solve the livelihood problem of her poor and tearful believers, but also make it easier for them to extend their tentacles to all parts of the four islands of Japan.
Especially for small mortgage shops and small pawn shops, low-interest loans with an annual interest rate of one to two cents have greatly reduced the burden on farmers, small businessmen, and small handicraftsmen.
Of course, it also aroused the anger of local loan shark groups. In the past two years, Taozi has recruited ronin with real abilities and moral bottom lines as protective warriors.
No matter where a small shop was smashed, a large number of warriors from other places would soon come to take revenge. Beat these scoundrels and loan shark bullies all over the countryside.
It took more than a year to seize this huge market. The various commodities shipped from the Ming Dynasty are also cheaper and more diverse.
They are the most commonly used tools and daily necessities in life production. These products provide new choices to the middle and lower class people.
For example, liquor is made by blending distilled water with alcohol and adding various flavors and flavors.
It quickly occupied the mid-to-low-end alcohol market with low prices. In Japan, food is very precious.
Because on the four islands, the small plains that can be cultivated are very limited. Using grain to make wine is expensive.
Governments in various places imposed heavy taxes. Ordinary people cannot afford to drink. In Japan, rice, a high-end food, could only be eaten by the samurai class.
If your social status was lower than that of a samurai, you couldn't eat rice. Although your family has worked hard to grow the rice, it can only be sold to merchants or given to the government as tax.
Eating it privately is punishable. What can farmers usually eat? When policies are not strictly enforced, farmers can eat brown rice, and noble warriors can eat polished rice.
If grain management is strict, farmers can only eat miscellaneous grains. At this time, what kind of miscellaneous grains are there in Japan? If farmers have a large family, they will replace rice with larger quantities of wheat, buckwheat, sweet potatoes, beans and other miscellaneous grains.
At this time, potatoes have been widely cultivated. Sweet potatoes were introduced to Japan from the Ming Dynasty, but the promotion and cultivation in Japan was better than that in the Ming Dynasty.
Sweet potatoes were first introduced to China around the Wanli period of the late Ming Dynasty. They entered China via three routes from Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a scholar named Chen Zhenlong in Fujian, who was a businessman. Discovered locally while doing business in the Philippines
"Yam". Chen Zhenlong hopes to introduce it, but the Philippines is under Spanish rule and in the name of protecting the species, it is strictly forbidden to bring potatoes to other countries for cultivation.
So Chen Zhenlong risked his life by wrapping the potato vines in the rope that tied the goods, successfully passed the customs, and brought them to my country.
In Japan, sweet potatoes are called
"Tang taro" was introduced to Kagoshima, Japan from Fujian probably in the late Wanli Dynasty, and then spread throughout Japan from Kagoshima.
There are only two kinds of wine in Japan, one is sake and the other is turbid wine. They are all made from rice. in any country and in any historical period.
Wine, tea, salt, and iron are all profitable industries. Taozi naturally knows that these four are very profitable industries.
She mixes alcohol with water and adds spices to make low-priced liquor, which she sells to the countryside through her network. Huge profits were made.
The reason why her wine sells so well is mainly due to the policies of the generals. In order to ensure tax revenue and prevent farmers from reducing their ability to pay taxes due to consumption, the three generations of shogunate, Kamakura shogunate, Muromachi shogunate, and Tokugawa shogunate seriously interfered in the lives of farmers.
They required farmers to live a simple and hard life and regard frugality and hard work as virtues. Save time for consumption, enjoyment and leisure.
Put yourself into work, work hard, produce a lot of products, supply the life needs of nobles and warriors, and ensure the quality of life of warriors and above social classes.
For example: In the "Qing'an Royal Touch Book" promulgated by the shogunate, they prohibited farmers from drinking tea and alcohol, buying silk and cotton clothes, eating more grains, and eating rice.
You are not allowed to buy oil or tea. Put an end to comfort and enjoyment and all items that are not necessary to maintain the ability to work.
Save money so that when the shogunate needs it, you can give it to the shogun as tax. How can this kind of moral preaching be implemented without effective supervision?
Obviously, it is impossible for the general to send people to monitor these unruly people day and night. Without this manpower, it is really impossible to act as a humanoid camera to monitor them 24 hours a day.
Therefore, the way to implement it is to focus on the sales side. Merchants are prohibited from selling oil, wine, and various non-daily necessities to farmers.
And businessmen gathered in the castle town to open shops. That is, the area under the castles of nobles everywhere.
The people living here provide services and products to the nobles living in the castle. Entry and exit gates can be searched to prevent farmers from entering the city to purchase contraband.
At the same time, you can also supervise merchants' shops. Of course, the ideas and system designs of the generals and daimyo were good.
However, the thoughts of the unscrupulous people are always so evil and backward. They are selfish, greedy for enjoyment and indolent in work.
These unscrupulous people living in the countryside, while praising the General's great policies, hide all the good things they can and enjoy them secretly.
They also work in secret and are unwilling to devote all their time to production. Rice wine is hidden under the floor or buried under the peach tree.
Take it out and drink it secretly at night. Dried sweet potatoes hang from the trees. Not only do they secretly make wine and drink on their own, but they also indulge in all the enjoyment of life.
They gambled and secretly spent the money on prostitutes, and refused to give it to the general. The gentlemen living in the city had no way of visiting them and could only order the shops in the city not to sell anything to them.
By this time, the shogunate had ruled for more than four hundred years and would rule for another two hundred years. Many policies have been relaxed. Except for the relatively strict control in the city, there is basically no one in the countryside.
After these farmers, hunters, craftsmen, and fishermen made money, they urgently needed to exchange it for something, hide it, and enjoy it secretly for themselves and their families.
They would not be stupid enough to save money for the General and then give it to the General. The people of Japan understand one thing very well: money only belongs to them if they are spent for themselves.
