Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 210 Only Lord Nohara is the savior!
Wanjin is now implementing an alternative public ownership system - Yuanye has overthrown all the second-level lords within Wanjin's sphere of influence. In theory, the entire Chita Peninsula belongs to him. He can even rob openly and drain the marrow from everyone, but he did not do that. He simply acted as a wealth distributor, so it is an alternative public ownership system.

Everything belonged to him, but he was willing to share it with others.

Wanjin's economy was mainly based on state-owned economy, that is, it was mainly based on a series of workshops he established. But as a modern Chinese, you don't need to be well versed in history to know that a country cannot rely solely on state-owned economy.

In the process of operation, the state-owned economy is too susceptible to administrative intervention, and decisions are often made on the spur of the moment, which leads to many bizarre things. Moreover, due to the lack of survival pressure, state-owned economic entities often lack the motivation to innovate, and are not interested in leaving their comfort zone and expanding outward, and are only willing to stay in their own territory and eat a comfortable meal.

But domestic demand is not as attractive as foreign demand. Of course, it is better to make money from outsiders. There is no future in relying solely on internal circulation.

The non-state-owned economy, on the contrary, is market-oriented, bold, responsive, highly resource-efficient, and can stimulate market vitality. For example, when he was crossing the wilderness, the non-state-owned economy he saw could already provide about 80% of jobs, about 70% of technological innovation, and more than 50% of tax revenue.

More importantly, an active private economy can meet diverse market demands, provide a wide variety of high-quality and low-priced goods, and greatly improve people's happiness.

Well, don’t underestimate those messy little gadgets produced by modern small factories. Those gadgets are not valuable, and may even be free shipping for 0.99 yuan. But this is the true foundation of a country.

Yuanye did not study economics, so his understanding of economics was limited, but he began to encourage industry and commerce when he was in old Wanjin, hoping that the private economy could become active even if it meant losing money. Otherwise, Wanjin would never become a country if it only relied on itself to make soy sauce and dye cloth.

Now, his silent hard work over the years seems to have finally borne fruit... Well, it's too early to say it's bearing fruit, but it's not an exaggeration to say it's sprouting. At least we can see some signs. Even if those iron workshop owners are forced to do so and are squeezed out of Wanjin by the policies, as long as they are willing to go out, it's always good.

Yuanye is willing to escort them, but it still needs to be carefully considered - economic issues involve many aspects, and private property must be guaranteed to be inviolable. There must be corresponding laws and regulations, guidance and constraints, and the monsters cannot be released.

There is also the issue of distribution. All economic issues, in the final analysis, are issues of distribution. Unequal distribution of the spoils can result in loss of life.

After Hiroshige Kichijiro left, Harano did not meet any of his "old subordinates" again. Instead, he became absorbed in thinking and began to walk around in circles in the box. He was even too lazy to watch the new play that Uozumi Hikoshiro was staging.

This was a bit difficult for him. From childhood to adulthood, he had never thought that one day he would need to build a proper country, so he was seriously lacking in learning and training in this area.

It was the opposite in the next box. Uozumi Hikoshiro's new play was well-rehearsed, and Inuhime, Ado and others were watching it with complete concentration and were very engaged.

The Kabuki performances of later generations in Japan were still in their infancy at that time and were considered to be of the lowest class and not suitable for formal performances. For serious performances, one should still watch "Noh" - "Sangaku" introduced from China during the Nara period, and later combined with the local "Sarugaku" to form. It was further improved by Kanami and Zeami, father and son, during the Muromachi period, and became a "mysterious" art exclusive to the nobility, with masks, stylized movements and religious themes as its core.

Uozumi Hikoshiro was able to get a group of people from Izumi Heiji to set up a troupe. He was an experienced person. He had been in Kyoto and Sunpu, and was considered a half-cultured person. His initial pursuit was to move closer to Noh theater, and he wanted to be an "artist". However, after the rehearsal, he invited Hara, the only "Wanjin nobleman", to appreciate the play, but Hara could not understand it - probably like the post-00s watching Peking Opera, where a sentence takes three minutes to sing, a movement takes thirty seconds, and everything is so slow that it is outrageous, and it is incomprehensible no matter how you watch it.

Yuanye came with high hopes but left disappointed. The only thing he could understand was the "Kyogen" used to liven up the audience during the intermission of "Noh", which was a gag in plain language. Yuanye was a vulgar man without a single elegant bone in his body, so he could only watch this stuff.

Of course, Yuanye was not the only one who didn't understand it. After the "Uozumi-ryu Noh Play" was staged at Wanjin Theater, it was only lively for three or four days before it was deserted and almost went bankrupt. After all, all the people in Wanjin were peasants and were not as "artistic" as Yuanye. Those who had seen it said that their money was wasted.

Uozumi Hikoshiro was devastated and almost collapsed, but after thinking it over, he finally figured it out.

He is now a Wanjin person, and the group he should serve is also Wanjin people. Anything that Yuanye and Wanjin people can't understand is garbage, otherwise he deserves to go bankrupt. After realizing this, he immediately threw "Noh" aside and took "Kyogen" as the main performance. By the way, he also invited Aman to guide him again through the relationship of Izumi Heiji, and then started to rehearse new plays.

After all these twists and turns, Wanjin drama now has some of the meaning of later drama or musical, or it can be said to be a bit like a medley of sketches, mainly for making people laugh, but in accordance with the inertia of the times, there are also some chorus or solo in each scene.

The costumes and settings are also close to Wanjin reality, and even the theme of the story has changed. It is no longer based on religious myths and ghost legends, but is adapted from folk materials, in order to be "down-to-earth" as Yuanye said.

The Inu Princess, Ado and others felt very involved in the drama, watching the protagonist Matsunomaru, who, unable to pay the high annual tribute, stepped forward and fought with the powerful samurai to help the whole village out of danger. Then he pretended to be crazy and made a bet with the monks in the temple, and successfully helped the village avoid the usurious interest and the money for cattle and rice.

Among them, the actor who plays the monk is particularly outstanding. He vividly portrayed the duplicity and the greed in his heart. The lines are also quite wonderful, with various puns and homophones that make people laugh. In addition, Matsunomaru has a positive image, always anticipates the enemy's moves, and lays layers of language traps, which in the end make the monk unable to speak out and can only swallow the bitter fruit alone. The humor of "Kyogen" and the wisdom of the common people are fully displayed, which is very wonderful.

But then the story took a sharp turn for the worse. Even though Matsunomaru was very clever, he could no longer stay in the village and had to leave his hometown and go to Kyoto to make a living. However, on the way he was captured by two low-level samurai who asked him to carry the luggage and threatened to chop him to pieces if he refused.

Unexpectedly, Matsunomaru was indeed smart. He found an opportunity and stole the two men's swords and armor while they were taking a bath. He then turned around and threatened them, forcing them to bark like dogs, walk like chickens, sing folk songs, take off their clothes and do the monkey dance. Finally, he successfully took the money and escaped, making the two low-level warriors also have a hard time, which caused the audience to laugh.

On the way, he also used the mouths of two low-level warriors to make a small mockery of the emperor's poverty, and also joked about the previous female emperor who went to the Korean Peninsula for two and a half years, became pregnant while sitting on a rock, and came back to give birth to the little emperor.

The audience didn't react much to this. The imperial court had long lost its authority these days, so no one was afraid of using it as a joke. After all, Yuan Ye was sitting there, and any problems were the theater's problems. It was impossible to cause trouble for them just by laughing.

Afterwards, Matsunomaru arrived in Kyoto smoothly and found a job in a rice shop. Because of his intelligence, he was soon appreciated by the boss and was also liked by the boss's fat daughter. However, Matsunomaru was still thinking about his childhood sweetheart and planned to go back and marry her in a few years. He resolutely refused, which caused a lot of jokes.

But the plot takes another sharp turn for the worse here. The rice shop owner offends the samurai in Kyoto. Even though Matsunomaru tries his best to help, the owner's family is soon broken up and Matsunomaru is forced to flee back to his hometown.

But this time his luck was not as good as before. He was captured by the warriors of the two families who were attacking each other and became a foot soldier. He began to act sneaky and cunning on the battlefield, and staged various life-saving farces. In the end, a tossing that would never happen in reality caused the two families to perish together. Only then did he happily return to his hometown to marry his childhood sweetheart. Unexpectedly, there was a famine in his hometown. At the same time, the lord was fighting with the neighboring lord, and he was frantically collecting annual tributes. Various military food money, horse loan money, and time money were collected endlessly. Even in just a few years, his childhood sweetheart had died and was buried alive by the local lord as a "jinchūriki" when building the city.

At this point, the laughter in the audience had completely disappeared, watching Matsunomaru crying on the stage, singing solo, denouncing all the injustices in the world and asking why the world is like this.

Ado also felt nervous when seeing this, and could empathize with the common people to some extent - the misery of the common people always has something in common. Even though the Okabe family has a slightly higher status, in the eyes of the samurai, they are still not up to par, and are still forced to do many things against their will, such as being sent to Wanjin by Oda Nobunaga, and having no choice at all.

The audience in the audience felt more deeply than she did. After all, they had really been unlucky, had really paid high annual tributes, had really been forced to fight on the battlefield, and many of their family members had really starved to death. Now looking at Matsunomaru, they couldn't help but think of their own tragic past. When they heard Matsunomaru on the stage wanting to seek a piece of pure land, and finally wiped away his tears, and really began to take the remaining villagers to cross the sea to Wanjin, they immediately applauded, and many people even had tears in their eyes.

Well, people these days are relatively simple and have not been polluted by cool novels and cool dramas. Even though this drama is very mainstream now, and it’s just short of putting up the words "Only Lord Nohara is the savior" for public display, they still have a strong sense of immersion, which makes them excited.

Ahu couldn't help but stand up and clap her hands as hard as Wanjinren did, even though she didn't think deeply about it. She just felt that the story was very exciting and that this new drama was better than simple "Kyogen", but she didn't know about the future.

Perhaps one day in the future, she will feel that Wanjin is a pure land and want to "escape" here to live. She will also feel that the emperor and the samurai are redundant and no longer want to continue to accept their rule.

Maybe. Anyway, many things are influenced imperceptibly. Who knows what results will be achieved in the future?

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"How is it?" Ah Man also stood in the box and clapped his hands. He raised his eyebrows and turned to Yuan Ye and asked, "Are you satisfied with the new play this time?"

"Not bad, better than expected."

Yuanye did read the last half, after all, it is related to internal publicity, which is a serious matter, but he felt that the protagonist was not tragic enough, and not all the villagers died, or the male protagonist was not sympathetic enough. Maybe the childhood sweetheart could be used as the main perspective and the story could be revised into "The Japanese White-Haired Girl", which would be more suitable for large-scale promotion and publicity - if you don't occupy the publicity high ground, others will definitely occupy it, and Japanese samurai are really cannibalistic, they are almost squeezing the common people's marrow out, this is not to discredit them.

But it's okay for now, Uozumi Hikoshiro did a good job.

Yuanye thought for a moment and said, "Let's do it this way. Let Uozumi Hikoshiro stage a few more plays. If they want to tour the Chita Peninsula, we can also give them subsidies. Well, they can also tour the Wanjin Army Base. You can ask him to quote the price. He won't suffer any loss."

"You can talk to Endo about these. It's enough for me to explain to the old man." Aman took care of the Koga immigrants for Izumi Heiji's sake, but saying a few good words for them was the limit. She didn't want to do it herself as she didn't have that much free time.

Yuanye nodded casually, showing some concern, but immediately asked curiously, "You said something was added... where was it added? In the first half?"

Aman insisted on dragging him to see the new play, and kept saying that there were some spiced-up performances. He thought there would be some obscene performances, like striptease or something - if there really were, he would hang Uozumi Hikoshiro up and beat him, and he would also conduct a strict inspection of the theater and organize a comprehensive crackdown on pornography.

Even if A-man was involved, even if he was just giving random advice or being lax, he would still be punished, not to mention Uozumi Hikoshiro.

He has zero tolerance for pornography, gambling and drugs. Even though women in ancient times were unable to perform heavy physical labor, they had more advantages than men in some light physical labor and were an important part of the labor force. So if anyone dared to compete with him for labor and bring a bad social atmosphere, don't blame him for chopping off his head - selling Y would bring about a series of social problems, including gambling, human trafficking, gangs, disease transmission, etc., which would easily cause social unrest. Production was the most in need of stability and order. So if anyone in this industry dared to show up in Wanjin, he would really kill them. He would kill anyone he caught without any mercy.

Ah Man didn't think as much as he did, and said directly: "Didn't you notice? There's a joke about the emperor in it! The emperor now has an illegitimate throne, right? I heard from the old man that the imperial family is also very chaotic. The female emperor took people out to fight in the war. She was gone for several years and came back with a big belly. It's hard to say whose child this is..."

In fact, she has never understood what Yuanye is doing, and she suspects that he wants to be the emperor. Even though it is basically impossible for Wanjin to take over the world now with his current strength, this does not stop her from messing around now. That's why she secretly instructs Yuzumi Hikoshiro to add the "Emperor Joke", feeling that it may be useful in the future.

It doesn't matter if it's useless, she just treats it as a fun thing, and the emperor is worthless in her eyes.

Yuan Ye really didn't notice the existence of such a joke. His mind was not on the drama at the time. He was thinking about whether he should come up with the "Four Classes Equality Order" and the "Property Protection Law" during this period of time.

But it didn't matter if there was such a joke. How many divisions did the emperor have? And he didn't want to be the emperor, so it didn't matter to him to ruin the emperor's reputation.

"So that's it, not bad, the joke is quite funny."

Yuanye didn't take it seriously. He nodded randomly and said something perfunctorily. His mind turned back to the new law. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this time period was actually very suitable.

The only two daimyo who could threaten him were Oda Nobunaga and Matsudaira Motoyasu. One was fighting with Mino, and the other was fighting with the Imagawa family. No matter how shocking he was on the peninsula, they had no time to pay attention to him.

And this is also a very important step. Wanjin should be like a country, and no longer be like a large private enterprise. This should be done sooner rather than later.

(End of this chapter)