After Kyogoku Takahiro and others left, Yoneda Sonrokuro sat in the imperial palace of Imahama Castle, actually feeling a little worried.
To be honest, Yoneda Sonrokuro had no idea in advance whether he could get this batch of grain back this time.
He is just a grain merchant in Wakasa country. Although he still has a certain strength in Wakasa and Omi areas, if the Kyogoku family really doesn't buy it, Yoneda Sonrokuro can only secretly have a headache.
Fortunately, the "Transfer Document of Knowledge and Property" and "Lending Terms" were signed with the Asai family at the beginning. Even if this lawsuit went to the shogunate, Yoneda Sonrokuro himself would be able to handle it.
However, after all, the Kyogoku family is not just a cat or a dog. Although it is a bit rundown now, it is still one of the three managers and four officials, and it is also close to the current Hosokawa family.
Before Sonrokuro Yoneda came, he had been thinking about what to do if the Kyogoku family defaulted on their debts.
However, judging from the current situation, the Kyogoku family does not seem to be showing signs of defaulting on its debt. As expected of a famous martial arts family, Yoneda Sonrokuro couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this.
"Sonrokuro, it's been a long time."
Just as Yoneda Sonrokuro lowered his head and was thinking about something, Kyogoku Takahiro finally returned to the hall, followed by Matsunaga Hide and Kyogoku Takamasa who were holding a bunch of calligraphy and paintings.
"Kyogoku-den, this is..." Looking at this scene, Yoneda Sonrokuro was in a daze.
"Haha, I've been thinking about it for a while, and it's hard to collect thousands of dollars in a short while. It happens that I have some calligraphy and paintings, so why not use this amount of money to discount, I wonder what Sun Liulang wants?"
"Calligraphy and painting?"
"Let me show you the little one."
Although Yoneda Sonrokuro is just a businessman, he is also quite interested in these things. After all, businessmen have money but little social status. Since you can't gain territory and reputation like a samurai, you can only be keen on cultivating cultural literacy and use this as an opportunity to squeeze into the "upper class of celebrities."
Opening the calligraphy and paintings in the hands of Kyogoku Takamasa and Matsunagahide one by one, and just taking a brief look, Yoneda Sonrokuro's eyes were instantly attracted.
Are these things really meant for me? "Yoneda Sonrokuro started to stutter when he spoke.
If he read it correctly, one of the calligraphy was written by the emperor, and the other one was also written by Sanjonishi Shitaka. I remember that two years ago, Yoneda Sonrokuro went to Kyoto and spent hundreds of dollars to obtain the calligraphy and painting of Sanjo Nishi Santaka, but he was rejected.
Now when he suddenly saw these things he had dreamed of piled in front of him, Yoneda Sonrokuro was not only a little distracted.
"Sonrokuro, can these calligraphy and paintings be enough to cover this debt?" Kyogoku Takamasa said with a smile.
Yoneda Sonrokuro nodded quickly like a chicken eating rice, "That's enough! That's enough!"
After saying that, Sonrokuro seemed to have thought of something, and then asked, "These calligraphy and paintings are extremely precious, are the Kyogoku family really willing to part with them?"
"Of course!" Kyogoku Takamasa replied with an affirmative look on his face: "Since I have promised to return this amount of money to you, Sonrokuro, I will never break my promise. It's just a few calligraphy and paintings, how can it be worse than But the friendship between me and Sun Liulang?"
Nonsense, there are a lot of these calligraphy and paintings in the back room. If he wasn't afraid that taking out too many at once would affect the market price, Kyogoku Takamasa would have wanted to sell them all.
However, Kyogoku Takamasa is not stupid. If there are too many calligraphy and paintings like this on the market at once, it will inevitably have an impact on the price. Anyway, the calligraphy and painting won’t run away from my hands, so I’d better do it slowly.
"I am really flattered that the Kyogoku family is willing to part with such a treasure!"
"The Kyogoku family treats each other with sincerity, and I, Yoneda Sonrokuro, am deeply grateful! I am willing to buy these paintings at market price!" Yoneda Sonrokuro showed a pair of sincere eyes.
Kyogoku Takamasa and Kyogoku Takahiro looked at each other, and both saw doubts in each other's eyes.
"What about the debt this time?"
"It is said that Sakyo Jinden is about to get married, so some money will be used as a congratulatory gift from Yonedaya, Sakyo Jinden!"
hiss.
What a generous gesture.
At this time, Kyogoku Takamasa had to re-examine the little-known Yoneda Sonrokuro in front of him. This guy actually has such courage. No wonder he can do such a good job in business.
But, why didn’t Sonrokuro Yoneda say anything at the beginning?
"I really deserve such a heavy gift!" Although he was very excited, Kyogoku Takamasa still pretended to be unmoved.
Yoneda Sonrokuro hurriedly said: "Don't refuse Sakyou Jinden. Money is an external possession. Being able to meet a samurai like Sakyou Jinden is a blessing for a small person."
At first, Yoneda Sonrokuro just thought that the Kyogoku family had the reputation of being the third in charge and the fourth position. Although Kitanomi was now unified, this strength was really not worth mentioning when looking at the world. However, the Kyogoku family was able to produce so many calligraphy and paintings by Kyoto ministers and even emperor's pens, which increased the Kyogoku family's weight in Yoneda Sonrokuro's heart.
Sonrokuro Yoneda made his fortune and took root in Wakasa. Although his strength has spread all over Wakasa, Wakasa is still too small after all. With Yoneda Sonrokuro's ambition, he already had the idea of expanding his business to other regions.
But around Wakasa, the poor people in Tango had no money to make money. As for the Echizen Asakura family, there were many wealthy businessmen in the country, and Yoneda Sonrokuro could not intervene in Echizen's territory.
Omi is a world-famous and prosperous place, and it is also the place where Yoneda Sonrokuro wants to get involved most.
Although there is a powerful Rokkaku family in Minamiomia, the leader of the Rokkaku family implements the "Le Shi Le Zao" policy. Although they encourage the development of trade, they adopt a suppressive policy against wealthy merchants who engage in trade monopoly.
Rakuichi Rakuza, Raku means liberalization, and Ichi means "market, transaction." Rakuza refers to a union composed of merchants or "artists" from the Heian period to the Warring States period. They paid money to the court, daimyo, or temples. Money in exchange for exclusive rights to sell or sell goods.
The Leshi Lezuo policy mainly advocates liberalized transactions, excludes existing industrial and commercial households (market seats, wealthy merchants, etc.) with monopoly sales rights, non-taxation rights, non-entry rights and other privileges, and establishes a free trading market so that "seats" “This monopolistic form of business model disbands.
Rich businessmen like Yoneda Sonrokuro do not have a favorable impression of the Rokkaku family because they have no sense of presence within the Rokkaku family territory.
That's why Yoneda Sonrokuro would "deal with" the Asai family before, because in his opinion, it was just a matter of time before the Asai family unified Kitaomi. Unexpectedly, the Kyogoku family suddenly succeeded in counterattacking.
And through what he saw and heard in Imahama Castle today, Yoneda Sonrokuro suddenly changed his mind.
He decided to move closer to the Kyogoku family.
There are no big wealthy merchants in Kitaomi yet, and the Kyogoku family has no dedicated royal merchants. In other words, Kitaomi is a "virgin land" for Yoneda Sonrokuro, waiting for him to develop it.
In this case, it is very necessary to have a good relationship with the Kyogoku family.
Under such a premise, thousands of dollars seem insignificant.
What is money?
I, Sonorokuro Yoneda, have never touched money in my life! I have no interest in money!
