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Chapter 102 looting allies

When Ah Hai and Goto Kogoro read the enfeoffment, it was the commander of the commander who pieced together the wooden boards that drew the enfeoffed family patterns and surnames on the huge Japanese map on the ground of Tensou Pavilion. The autonomous city was covered with pieces of gold, the main color of the land of the Sanbeng Gun was black, and the rest of the daimyos were colorful. After everything was read out, many fertile lands on the Kinki Plain and Kyushu Island were still unlimited. On the map, the blank spaces made everyone breathe rapidly.

After the division of the ban, there was no celebration or banquet, there were only silences and hesitation. The daimyos looked at each other with three guns, but they didn't dare to ask each other. Ah Hai asked with a smile, "Why, the territory I divided was unfair?"

Everyone shook their heads. Ah Hai's vocation was very fair. His military achievements, qualifications, number of troops sent and political energy were taken into consideration. Those who made great contributions would definitely be more than those who made less contributions. Those who sent more troops would definitely be more than those who sent fewer troops, and those who had richer qualifications would definitely be much more than those who had less qualifications. This is fairness, but no one expected that Ah Hai did not finish the assignment and left a territory of up to three million stones.

Seeing that everyone was not talking, Ah Hai asked, "Kun Kawaharada, do you think I'm a fair share?"

Kawaharada Hitoe said directly, "It's very fair, Your Highness!"

"Then do you think that the territory of 750,000 shi high can reward you for this battle?" Ah Hai asked again.

Kawaharada Bingei knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, Kawaharada Bingei is just a ronin. His Genji bloodline is weak and his talent is not enough. In the battle of the fall, he has little achievements. Don't say 750,000 stones and commanding the Three Kingdoms. Even if he is 100,000 stones, he dare not imagine. Your Highness's great reward, the Kawaharada clan will never forget it!"

"His Highness Shimazu, where are you?" Ah Hai asked again.

Shimazu Kokusaku "I'm just thinking about Shige and His Highness Kawaharada!"

"We are all just thinking!" The conferred people knelt on the ground, and Ah Hai nodded slightly.

Garcia, who was watching the show, laughed. He was a mercenary and received a generous reward of 300,000 yuan in the United States. All military expenses were reimbursed, so he could not share the territory. Garcia said, "Haha, you orientals are really interesting, he is so stingy, I just dare not tell the truth. I will tell you, Your Honorable Elder, these people want to know, who are you going to share the remaining three million stones in the territory?"

"Of course it is allocated to you, to me, to all the soldiers involved in this battle, the heroes and wounded soldiers, and to everyone present." Ah Hai said seriously.

With a wave of his hand, the servant fell down a new map, which only contained three million territories that had not been divided, and these territories had been cut into pieces, the large one was only one thousand stones, the small one was only one thousand stones, totaling 1,500 stones. Ah Hai said, "Everyone, your merits have been rewarded with the territory, but the soldiers' merits have not been given yet. I decided to sell these three million territories. In addition to rewarding soldiers and pensions for family members who were injured and injured, they should also be used on you? You will not think that today I will stamp the seal of the Emperor and the Shogunate on your seal, and the territory belongs to you."

"This is impossible, those lands and samurai will definitely resist." Kawaharada Hoeme said.

Japan used to implement the feudal system. The lands that were divided into feudals came from the Tokugawa shogunate, the relatives, the vassals, the dynasties and some other daimyos. Although the shogunate would punish the original landlords for various crimes, the Tokugawa shogunate would not wipe out these people for its own enemies, and would even secretly instruct them to make trouble. The so-called feudalism was more about giving them the authority to control the land. Whether it could be done or how it could be done depends on everyone's own ability.

What's even more terrifying is that after the feudal war, the United States will not only not participate in the security war, nor will it organize unified actions. Everyone has to form gangs or act alone, marry, contribute, and merger are all means, but Japan, where strength is respected, military occupation is necessary.

Shimazu Kokusa asked, "Then how do you plan to sell it, and to whom are you going to sell it?"

"Of course, all the meritorious ministers in this war, from the names of all the names to the ronin, whoever has money will be sold to whom, and it is an auction system!" As Ah Hai said, he personally picked up a piece of white paper and hung it on the wall of Tianshou Pavilion, with the words "10,000 stones" written on it, and there are also annotations behind it. The location of this territory, the number of people in the territory, and the geometry of production are all clearly written, and the annotations also have the words "the base price of 20,000 yuan."

Ah Hai asked, "Nobuma Goto, are you willing to buy this land?"

Nobuma Goto knew that the territory was close to Kogoro's territory, and immediately said, "Yes, I am willing to invest 20,000 yuan to buy this territory."

Kogoro walked forward, drew the Goto family's tribe pattern on the paper, and wrote 20,000 taels. Ah Hai said, "This is Goto Nobuma's bid. Of course, if others are willing to pay a higher price, they can paint the family pattern or write the name, plus a higher price. Each price increase must not be less than 500 taels. After the auction is over, the person with the highest price will be paid, and the territory can be obtained."

Takaze Heizaburo asked, "What if someone makes trouble and offers a high price but can't afford it in the end?"

"This is very simple. If the auction fails due to personal reasons, the bidder will have to pay a quarter of the price as compensation. This territory will be turned to the second high-priced person. If the bidder cannot even pay the fine, part of his territory will be confiscated for compensation, and the confiscated territory will also be used for public auction!" Ah Hai said.

"The final proceeds are first used to reward merits, followed by pensions for the families of injured and dead soldiers. The remaining other payments are purchased for the weapons used to combat the rebellion for the forces participating in the war, mainly muskets, ammunition and artillery. These weapons are distributed according to the proportion of the enfeoffed territory in all enfeoffed territories. For example, Kawaharada-kun's territory accounts for about 15% of its territory, and there are fifteen of the 100 muskets." Ah Hai explained.

Rewarding merit is inevitable, because the minimum standard for land in the feudal system is one thousand stones high. Many people's credit cannot keep up with this, and they must use bounties. This part of the money will not be obtained from the compensation given by the shogunate. The same is true for the pension. In fact, they have fought side by side and have to make a good relationship. In any case, the United States will not only fight in Japan, but first make a reputation of fighting and generous, and will be able to recruit soldiers in Japan next time.

As for purchasing firearms, they are centralized and distributed free of charge, but in fact, the profit is very high. On the United States market, a flintlock gun is equipped with a base ammunition. The price of a bayonet is twelve to fifteen taels of silver, and the price of an army purchase is about seven taels. At the army purchase and market distribution, it is half the profit. In addition, there are a large number of combroach guns, bird guns and other things in the United States arsenal can be used to make up for the numbers. As for rewards, pensions are even simpler. Japan has just experienced a large-scale war and the most shortage is food. In Sakai, Nagoya and Nagasaki, millions of stones of military rations transported, which are enough to dispense those people.

According to the General Staff's estimate, the total price of these three million stones can be sold at 15 million, and if it is well operated, the profit will not be less than 10 million taels of silver.

The so-called auction territory is a large-scale "looting" of allies. You should know that although the Tokugawa shogunate agreed to a large amount of compensation, not many of them could get it this year. In order to get the compensation, the shogunate wanted to punish those Daming who failed in the battle and attacked the Daming who secretly contacted the Daming Alliance, but was abandoned by Ahai. The allies of the Daming who obtained sufficient benefits in the war had a lot of money in their hands. Faced with the situation where the mainland and sea fights at the same time, Ahai had to put his ideas on the Daming of the Allies.

In addition to auctioning territories, Ah Hai also established state-owned procurement banks in all autonomous cities, which were to purchase weapons, ammunition and military supplies for these Daming who wanted to quell the rebellion. They handed over the orders to the state-owned procurement banks. The procurement banks purchased centrally in China, and most of the profits became the income of state-owned enterprises, so as not to be stolen by domestic merchants and Japanese compradors.

As the servants hung their seals on the wall, the daimyos rushed up as if they were injected with chicken blood, chose a territory suitable for their family, and wrote down high auction prices in succession. Other meritorious officials also received news and rushed to the scene. In Japan, theoretically, only samurai were worthy of land, but this time all those who had military achievements were given the status of quasi-samurai and participated in the bidding. The only thing that could not be participated was the comprador merchants because they did not go to the battlefield.

But merchants suddenly became the most popular people here. After the liquidation and looting of so many places, the daimyos were rich, but there were more places to spend money. It was best to find these merchants to borrow money. The merchants no longer shrank about daimyos like before, because their power and status were obtained by the shogunate and emperor, and more importantly, they were recognized by the United States. This time, they must give full play to their financial advantages.

The choice of Daming people is not only a comprador. In several important open cities, a large number of banks in the United States have appeared. As the most advanced financial power outside Europe, they provide more professional services and larger assets.

The feudal meeting quickly evolved into an auction, with various transactions continuing, but they would eventually turn into numbers and be calibrated on the lot and enter the money treasury of the United States Finance Ministry. The Japanese samurai class's love for land exceeded Ah Hai's imagination, so that the three million stone territory was sold at a price of more than 20 million. Of course, this is a later story.

The daimyos turned into bulls and fought for power and profit in Tianshou Pavilion, which made the next meeting unable to be carried out. Ah Hai was forced to fail to reorganize the order. Fortunately, there was nothing needed to discuss by these daimyos, and the rest could be issued directly.

The most important announcement was that the Tokugawa shogunate amended the "Military Laws" and many provisions were still valid, such as prohibiting the belief in Catholicism, punishing unfilial and unfaithfulness, and prohibiting the formation of gangs by Daming. However, in terms of restricting external Daming, the provisions have changed greatly. First, the order for one country and one city was cancelled, and each vassal can freely build cities, lift the annual consultation system, and change it to once every five years. It can be fully represented by the sons, younger brothers and other people with blood ties. Daming's wife does not have to live in Edo Castle. The projects of each vassal are responsible for each vassal, and the shogunate will no longer pass the public on his hand.

It can be said that the "Martial Laws" originally used to restrict Daming has become a tool to maintain the rule of the samurai class. The originally unstable master-slave relationship between the shogunate and the major names is completely superficial. While the restrictions on Daming are reduced, the shogunate has increased its control over the directly affiliated samurai class, namely the Hachimoto and the Imperial Family, which is the "Martial Laws".

Japan's policy of closing the country to the country is still mostly in operation, but it has been loosened. The whole country has fully established the United States and allowed Japanese people to go abroad, but it is limited to traveling to a few cities in the United States.

These policies have been unanimously recognized by the Anti-Shi Alliance. Of course, there is still a process to go through. All territories have to issue oaths. After the oaths are collected, they still need to sign the name, and Goto Kogoro is responsible for this matter and runs between the daimes.

Five days later, Nagoya.

Tianshou Pavilion is still boiling, all night long, but today, none of the three guns appeared here, but appeared in Ahai's office.

"Gotou, are you determined to buy the territory of Yamashiro Kingdom?" Ah Hai asked.

In the auction, Goto Nobuma left a high price of 55,000 yuan, which was higher than the second place 10,000 yuan, while the same rich territory was only 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. Obviously, Goto Nobuma was determined to win.

"Yes, you, I want to buy it and give it to my adopted son Kogoro." Goto was very satisfied with this adopted son.

Ah Hai smiled and took out a note from his arms and handed it to Goto. It was the promissory note from United Bank, 55,000 taels. Ah Hai said, "This is for you, and that territory is my personal reward to Kogoro."

Nobuma Goto wanted to refuse, but seeing that Ah Hai was very persistent, he accepted it. Sanben Gun bowed his head and said nothing. He didn't know why Ah Hai was so stupid as Kogoro. The reason was actually very simple. The idea of ​​selling excess territory was Kogoro. Although it was a bit less decent, it could generate more than 10 million taels of income for the United States.

"Okay, there are a few things to call you here today. First of all, Goto, you are the only Kichitan tribe in Japan. You can only openly believe in Shikoku Island. Mission is not allowed in the territory on Honshu Island. Do you understand?" Ah Hai asked.

Goto nodded, and Ah Hai continued to say, "The territory on land is almost the same, but the sea rights have not yet been separated. This time, I will reduce the share of weapons you have obtained, and instead hand over a fleet to you, called the Seto Inland Sea Fleet, four sailing frigates and four galloping warships. For the rest of the small ships, you should come to join the three guns not only have the strongest army on land, but also have to control the Japanese ocean."

"As long as your highness commands," everyone answered in unison.
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