The notices spoken by Emperor Komu were quickly posted in front of all the ryotai houses in Osaka Castle Town.
The content is very simple, just two sentences.
The first is to register claims. It not only registers the claims of the top ten second-hand houses, but also registers the claims of other second-hand houses with repayment difficulties.
Second, all creditors who want the Emperor to help repay their debts must do their best to serve His Majesty the Emperor! Because only by allowing His Majesty the Emperor to seize the Kinai Five Kingdoms first can he be able to reorganize the finances and help Osaka Ryotaiya pay off its huge debt!
In other words, if you want His Majesty the Emperor to repay your debts, you must be loyal to the Emperor... Profiteers in Osaka, are you loyal or disloyal?
When the profiteers saw Emperor Komu's notice, they were all dumbfounded. Of course they knew what loyalty meant... They wanted to help the Emperor capture Osaka Castle and Kyoto!
They are profiteers who are greedy for life and fear death. They are not samurai who serve as soldiers. How can they help the Emperor to seize Osaka Castle and Kyoto?
Emperor Kouko probably also knew that this Osaka profiteer was a coward, so early in the morning he asked the ten major ryotaiyas to arrange bantou and teshiro to set up stalls outside each ryotaiya in Osaka Castle Town. On the one hand, they would register claims and on the other hand, they would Everyone explains His Majesty the Emperor's policies.
"These debts are not owed by His Majesty the Emperor, and of course His Majesty has no obligation to bear them, but businessmen who are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor can get her help to tide over the difficulties. If you want His Majesty the Emperor's help, then please be loyal to His Majesty!
If you are unwilling to be loyal, it is impossible to get help from His Majesty the Emperor! "
"As long as they are loyal merchants loyal to the Emperor, after His Majesty returns the capital to Kyoto, he will take out the bonds issued by the Daimyo Salt Bank to help the Ryotai Bank in Osaka repay the debts owed..."
It seems to make sense... In fact, Emperor Komu had no money to pay off Osaka's two houses. The one who really paid was Zhu Cihong, the best man in the Ming Dynasty who did good deeds without leaving his name.
Of course, Zhu Cihong's Salt Bank will not take out money in vain, let alone take away precious real money. What he provided to Osaka Ryotaihang was credit as valuable as real money.
With the credit guarantees of the Salt Bank and the Bank of Japan, white paper can become a currency as strong as silver.
Therefore, what the "loyal merchants" in Osaka can get is a five-year non-coupon bearer transferable bond issued by the Salt Bank with one tael of silver coins as the basis... Osaka's ryodai banks only need to accept With the capital injection of Salt Bank, a corresponding number of "five-year non-coupon bearer transferable bonds" can be obtained to repay their debts.
These "five-year non-coupon bearer transferable bonds" will also be endorsed by Emperor Koiko's court - these bonds can be used to pay the annual tribute and other taxes paid to the court, and can also be used by the court and The royal merchant's settlement.
In short, these "five-year non-coupon bearer transferable bonds" are still very useful!
"But how can we be loyal? We are all businessmen, not warriors. It is impossible for us to go to war!"
"Yeah, even if we reluctantly go to the battlefield, we can't be the opponent of the Tokugawa samurai..."
Osaka businessmen are still timid!
Even though the "five-year non-coupon bearer transferable bonds" were attracting him, he still didn't dare to fight the Tokugawa samurai.
"You don't need to fight. His Majesty the Emperor has 100,000 Hokuriku, Chugoku, Kyushu and Shikoku samurai loyal to him, so he doesn't need you businessmen to go into battle. However, His Majesty the Emperor does not intend to storm Osaka Castle. In order to reduce casualties, she plans to surround Osaka Castle. This A siege trench that is at least 20 miles long needs to be dug, and a breastwork that is 25 miles long needs to be built. A large number of deer villages and horse guns need to be deployed, and several fortresses may need to be built... This is a very huge project. Tens of thousands of strong men need to be mobilized! So please contribute according to the number of registered claims!
Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor will also record your merits based on how many people you have produced. When the battles of Osaka and Kyoto are over, all the townspeople who have made meritorious service will be given town land as a reward. By then you will be a townshishi, with a status similar to that of a townshishi. You can have the Miao character, carry a sword, and serve as an official! "
The representatives sent by Emperor Koiko now offered the coveted town land.
At this time, all land in Japan was publicly owned or owned by lords - in fact, feudal private ownership of land did not exist! If the land is privately owned, what else does the lord receive? How to establish feudal obligations? If the lord has no land to grant, why should the vassal serve in the army?
Therefore, where land is privately owned and can be bought and sold freely, the element of feudalism is very low. In Japan, which has a strong feudal flavor, there is basically no private land.
The land occupied by warriors was granted by the superior lord, and the lord could also take it back. The land occupied by farmers and town residents needed to be rented from the lord. Therefore, the annual tribute paid by Japanese farmers and the land tax paid by Ming farmers are completely different concepts. The former is actually land rent, so there are standards of six for public and four for public and five for public and five for private. The latter only levied taxes, so they usually paid five liters or one bucket per acre.
When Emperor Koiko distributed town land as rewards to meritorious Osaka townspeople, he actually gave them the status of "shi" - they worked for the emperor and received land from the emperor, and of course they were the emperor's "shi". Because the amount of land they received was relatively small, their status was similar to that of rural scholars, and they might be called "machi scholars." But they can definitely have the Miao character and the right to carry swords, and they are part of the samurai class.
You can get a five-year non-coupon bearer transferable bond, you can also get town land, and become a town samurai. Now the businessmen in Osaka are finally excited... This Emperor Komu is indeed rare. Mingjun!
The cheers of "The Emperor is on board" sounded again and reached the ears of Tokugawa Yorinobu and the various feudal lords under his command who had already boarded the Osaka Castle Castle Tower.
At this time, Tokugawa Yorinobu had summoned all the feudal lords under his command and gathered them all in Osaka Castle. A military meeting was now being held.
"General Osaka, now we should attack Osaka Castle Town first before the enemies have arrived!"
"General Osaka, please give the order to attack!"
"General Osaka, the samurai are all excited, waiting for your order!"
"Yes, General Osaka, please lead us out of the city and let the traitors in Osaka Castle Town get the punishment they deserve!"
The feudal lords in Osaka Castle are all gearing up - this time the target is the extremely wealthy Osaka Castle Town!
If you grab it hard, it will be worth the annual tribute for several years!
Tokugawa Yorinobu certainly knows what the people below are thinking. But he didn't know how many of these people had secretly communicated with Xingwuyuan?
It shouldn’t be Toudo Takatsuki alone, right? The Todo family had been favored by the shogunate and received more than 300,000 stone seals. And those feudal lords who did not receive a great title, or even had their territory reduced, didn’t have any thoughts? For example, the Hojo family? Now that both Uesugi and Takeda have joined Kobuin, Hojo doesn’t want to?
If he leads an attack and something changes in Osaka City, everything will be lost.
But if he didn't attack, other feudal lords would be allowed to lead their troops to grab it. So what would his retainers think? Osaka Castle Town is the property of Osaka Domain! Osaka Domain's retainers could not rob them, but let outsiders rob them... And as a lord, how could he let samurai from other countries rob his subjects? After doing this, will the 1.15 million stone feudal lords in Osaka still have the face to see others?
In addition, once samurai entered the Osaka Castle Town, they were likely to focus only on robbery and lose discipline. If Xingwuyuan and Zhu Cijiong ambushed their troops in the castle town... that would dampen their spirits!
Thinking of this, Tokugawa Yorinobu coughed and said: "The shogunate has long made a plan... We will cage the city in Osaka. With the reserves in Osaka City, we can persist for at least three years! But it will not take six years. In a few months, the Tokugawa family's army will be able to conquer Echigo Kingdom. At that time, the world will be pacified by our Tokugawa family again. But before that, we only need to hold on to Osaka, Fushimi, Nijo, Takato, Nagahama, and Hikone , Wakayama Castle and Tanba Kameyama Castle, etc., and firmly contain the Kobuin army in the ki, then you will be done!
Therefore, my order is not to attack and stick to the end! "
